DES Foreword
Our Disability Equality Scheme will be reviewed in light of the changes to the Public Sector Equality Duty (Equality Act 2010), which is due to be enforced in April 2011.
All Public Authorities are required by law (the Disability Equality Duty) to produce a Disability Equality Scheme.
The Disability Equality Duty requires Public Authorities to:
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Promote equality of opportunity between disabled people and others
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Eliminate discrimination that is unlawful under the Disability
Discrimination Act
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Eliminate harassment of disabled people that is related to their disability
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Promote positive attitudes towards disabled people
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Encourage participation by disabled people in public life
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Take steps to meet disabled people's needs, even if this requires more favourable treatment.
Our Disability Equality Scheme gives details about how we intend to meet these requirements.
Our first Disability Equality Scheme (DES) was published in 2006. Over the course of the last 3 years we have published not only the initial scheme and Action Plan, but annual updates in the Spring of 2008 and 2009. We have now published our DES 2009 -2012.
Disability Equality Scheme 2009 - 2012
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||| Disability Equality Scheme Action Plan 2009 -2012|||
Disability Equality Scheme - Annual Updates
||| Disability Equality Scheme Update - April 2008||| (Word, 837kb)
Disability Equality Scheme Update - April 2008 PDF Version||| (PDF, 127kb)
||| Disability Equality Scheme Update 2009 - Word Version|||
Disability Equality Scheme 2006 - 2009
See the documents below for more information about our original Disability Equality Scheme:
Disability Equality Scheme Summary - PDF Version||| (PDF, 234kb)
Disability Equality Scheme||| (Word, 184kb)
||| Disability Equality Scheme Summary - Word Version||| (Word, 40.0kb)
Disability Equality Scheme - Plain Words and Pictures||| (PDF, 2.4 MB)
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