Disability Equality Scheme 2006-2009

 

From December 2006 The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 will be amended to place a duty on all public bodies to promote disability equality. This will affect all public bodies - from local councils to government departments, from universities to hospitals.

 

The Disability Equality Duty will require the public sector to actively promote disability equality, and is similar to the duty to promote race equality under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act.

 

This is a positive duty that builds in disability equality at the beginning of the process, rather than make adjustments at the end.  It will bring about a shift from a legal framework which relies on individual disabled people complaining about discrimination to one in which the public sector becomes a proactive agent of change.

 

 

 

Please find links below to the whole scheme, the executive summary and the easy read version of the scheme.