[PDF] Top 20 The Duty to Promote Disability Equality

... general duty requires authorities not only to have due regard to disability equality when making decisions about the future but also to take action to tackle the consequences of decisions in the past ... See full document

... on disability equality in schools and colleges in Britain in ...the duty to promote disability equality and in particular around the obligation on schools and colleges to produce ... See full document

... Link Disability-led HA 2 criticised the Communities Target for not placing a requirement on HAs to make a sustained and meaningful response to the ...by disability organisations at the Environment Target ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... orientation, disability and age – are interconnected with the aspiration to promote community cohesion, but should note that the main focus of the duty is cohesion across different cultures, ethnic, ... See full document

... Compliance: We will use a range of strategies to promote compliance. This may include: working with organisations to ensure that remedial or preventative action is taken; giving specific advice or guidance to an ... See full document

... to equality for members of the gypsy and traveller ...“a duty to achieve a result, namely to eliminate unlawful racial discrimination or to promote equality of opportunity and good relations ... See full document

... Within each sector, a ‘Target organisation’ was identified as a focus for investigation. All the organisation were public bodies with a published DES and with a completed first year review. A wide geographic spread ... See full document

... the duty requires public authorities to have due regard to the need to promote equality of opportunity between women and men, it requires more than an acceptance of the status ... See full document

... to promote the value of the work of the equalities team both internally within the organisation and in contact with external groups and their answers also reflected this professional ... See full document

... Solid equality information is the cornerstone of equality work, enabling public authorities to shape effective and efficient ...race, disability and religion or belief (hate crime) are increasing but ... See full document

... The equality duty covers the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual ...The duty also ... See full document

... the duty to promote race equality (see ...race equality should be proportionate to its relevance to a particular ...will promote good race ...race equality is less important when ... See full document

... the duty will still apply to them if they are part of a larger, listed authority, or if they fall under the auspices of an umbrella organisation that is ...the duty still applies to them, even though legal ... See full document

... the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) in Doing the Duty (DRC, 2005), a Code of Practice published to advise public sector organisations on how to proactively ensure that disabled people are treated ...for ... See full document

... agency duty to promote equality, which will be extended to all recognised discriminations if the 2008 Equality Bill becomes law, strengthening the NHS’s own Single Equality ... See full document

... general duty is to make racial equality a central part of the way public authorities work, by putting it at the centre of policy making, service delivery, regulation and enforcement, and employment ... See full document

... with equality officers (or equivalent) and senior managers, while focus groups or one-to-one interviews took place with disabled employees, customers and service ... See full document

... the Equality Act 2010 (applicable in England and Wales and in Scotland) imposes broad obligations on all public purchasers to promote equality (gender equality, racial equality etc) in ... See full document

... Gender Equality is essential for growth and poverty reduction and is key to reaching the Millennium Development ...gender equality and women empowerment is financed not only - as cross cutting issues - ... See full document