Disability Equality Scheme

Disability Discrimination Act 2005

The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 amended the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and introduced a duty on public authorities to promote equality for disabled people. Under the Act the council is required, when carrying out its functions, to pay due regard to the need to:

• Eliminate discrimination that is unlawful under this Act
• Eliminate harassment of disabled persons that is related to their disabilities
• Promote equality of opportunity between disabled persons and other persons
• Take steps to take account of disabled persons' disabilities, even where that involves treating disabled persons more favourably than other persons
• Promote positive attitudes towards disabled persons
• Encourage participation by disabled persons in public life.

This places a number of specific duties on the council including the preparation and production of a Disability Equality Scheme.

Our Disability Equality Scheme sets out the actions we will take to address key priorities of local disabled people and staff over the next three years. The priorities were informed by a series of workshops held during autumn 2006.

The involvement of disabled people in the process is critical to the success of the scheme.

Disability Equality Scheme

• Disability Equality Scheme - complete (pdf 400k)
• Disability Equality Scheme - complete (Word 423k)
• Disability Equality Scheme - Accessibility version (pdf 185k) - This is designed to be accessed by screen readers. Download free Adobe screen reading software. How to use reading features of Adobe 8.0 (pdf 60k)

• Disability Equality Scheme - easy read (pdf 537k)
• Disability Equality Scheme - summary (pdf 170k)
• Disability Equality Scheme - summary (Word 95k)

• Disability Equality Scheme - Bengali (pdf 474k)
• Disability Equality Scheme - Somali (pdf 705k)
• Disability Equality Scheme - Vietnamese (pdf 716k)
  

• Disability Equality Scheme - Annual progress report 2007 (pdf 200k). If you require Bengali, Vietnamese or Somali translations of this report then please contact the Diversity & Equalities Team on 020 7364 1963 or 020 7364 3070

Further information

To find out more about the duty and the Disability Discrimination Act, visit the Equality and Human Rights Commission's website at  www.equalityhumanrights.com.