The Disability Equality Duty
A guide to the Disability Equality Duty and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 for the social housing sector
... of disability equality into policies and programmes needs to be achieved through a detailed understanding of the specific needs of people with different kinds of ...their Disability Equality ...
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An in-depth examination of the implementation of the Disability Equality Duty - Executive Summary. A research report for the Office for Disability Issues
... the Disability Equality Duty should be seen in the context of wider changes in policy and legislation affecting disabled people in recent years, with some caution being exercised in attributing ...
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Don't get involved : an examination of how public sector organisations in England are involving disabled people in the Disability Equality Duty
... The Disability Equality Duty (DED) came into force in December ...the equality of disabled people as staff members, consumers or ...promote disability rights and citizenship in the ...
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An in-depth examination of the implementation of the Disability Equality Duty in England
... a Disability Equality Impact Assessment; most of them reported having changed aspects of policy and practice in employment and service provision as a ...
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Mainstreaming the Disability Equality Duty and the impact on public authorities' working practices
... Re-thinking equality: introducing mainstreaming approaches in the workplace As set out earlier, one of the key differences of the DED when compared with the DDA is that it requires organisations to be proactive in ...
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An in-depth examination of the implementation of the Disability Equality Duty - Executive Summary. A research report for the Office for Disability Issues
... a duty on regional offices to complete their own consultations with disabled people and produce their own Action Plan based on the ideas of local groups of disabled ...(artists, disability-led ...
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The Duty to Promote Disability Equality
... departmental Disability Equality Scheme will focus on specific actions within that department in relation to the disability equality ...improved equality of opportunity for disabled ...
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Disability equality: a priority for all. Guidance for civil servants on the duties imposed by the Disability Discrimination Act
... the Disability Equality ...the Disability Equality Duty as it designed and operated the ...the Disability Equality Duty in any parameters they set the NDPB to ...
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Equality objectives and the equality duty: A guide for public authorities
... and equality groups that people with a disability are 50 per cent less likely to use their adult learning services as non disabled ...with equality groups as well as a reference group of disabled ...
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Dis-Equality: Exploring the Juxtaposition of Disability and Equality
... and equality by designat- ing some disabled people, and those with more complex needs in particular, as having needs that are ‘unreason- able’, ‘too costly’ and ‘too ...substantive equality, the con- ...
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Public Sector Equality Duty Policy
... We collect and analyse data on inequalities of outcome and participation, related to our potentially vulnerable groups. We also collect, analyse and use data in relation to attendance and exclusions of different groups. ...
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DISABILITY EQUALITY SCHEME INDEX
... Bodies` duty to enforce the vision to eliminate unlawful discrimination and to promote equal opportunities for all pupils, staff, visitors and users of the ...
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The public sector Equality Duty: reducing bureaucracy
... The Equality Act 2010 contains a new integrated Equality Duty on all public bodies which brings together the existing duties on race, gender and disability and extends to cover gender ...
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The essential guide to the public sector equality duty
... general equality duty, you need to extend your previous information collection and use from race, gender (including gender reassignment) and disability to include also pregnancy and maternity, ...
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Disability and the Duty to Accommodate in the Canadian Workplace
... • The other types of risk legally tolerated at the place of work; and • The types of risks tolerated within society as a whole. The Supreme Court in Meiorin and Grismer clearly indicated that zero-tolerance safety rules, ...
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Gender Equality Duty Code of Practice England and Wales
... the duty is ...wider equality agenda, including the race and disability duties, but will need to pay specific attention to meeting gender equality ...
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Review of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) in Wales
... Reducing the impact of cost savings that adversely affected specific groups Velindre Trust reviewed the translation and format of patient leaflets. While at first they thought to offer leaflets in a selection of ‘top ...
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Inquiry into Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws
... Reasonable adjustments The Law Council strongly supported the retention of the ‘reasonable adjustments’ provision in the DDA, and generally supported extending the duty to make reasonable adjustments to other ...
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Litigating the Public Sector Equality Duty: The Story So Far
... minute equality analysis of everything that they ...of disability-related matters [or of] … the numbers of disabled persons with housing needs which would not be met under the new regime [or] … the ...
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General Dental Council Disability Equality Scheme: Draft
... 4. When trying to draft a Scheme that would be incorporated into the current E+D Strategy, the DRC’s view became clear. The finished document would have been repetitive, wordy and could have had the appearance of being ...
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