Gavin Nigel Xavier HardingMBE (born 18 March 1974) is a British politician and academic who was mayor of Selby, North Yorkshire, England. He was the first person in the United Kingdom to become mayor while being formally diagnosed as having a learning disability.[1]
Harding grew up in Selby, and studied at Brayton High School and Selby College. He is a Labour councillor on Selby Town Council having lived in Selby most of his life representing Selby North ward. Harding has now been elected for his 3rd term as a councillor. He founded a self-advocacy group Voices for People and works for NHS England as a senior learning disability advisor.
Harding served as deputy mayor of Selby in 2014 before being appointed mayor the following year.[1] In 2014, he was awarded an MBE.[2] He has been part of a committee looking into the progress of Winterbourne View, a private hospital condemned for its abuse of people with learning difficulties.[3]
In 2019 Harding was included in the Shaw Trust "Power 100" list of the most influential disabled people for that year.[4]
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^ ab"Gaving Harding: UK's first mayor with a learning disability appointed in Selby". The Independent. 21 May 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
^"Councillor and academics receive Queen's Birthday Honours". York Press. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
^"Post-Winterbourne View : why have so few learning disabled people been moved out of residential units?". The Guardian. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
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