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The disability equality duty disabled people's toolkit: for disabled people enquiring about how a public authority has met its duty to promote disability equality
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
This toolkit is for disabled people: As a disabled person you might find that a public authority you have contact with does not have a DES in place, or if it does it may not be meeting its other specific duties under the legislation, or it just isn’t meeting one or more elements of the general duty to promote disability equality. If you think that a public authority is not meeting its duties and you want to find out more information from them this toolkit can help. The toolkit is a series of standard letters which disabled people can use to ask further questions of public authorities they have an interest in. Copies should be kept of all correspondence.
Making the duty work: a guide to the disability equality duty for disabled people and their organisations
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
How often have you felt frustrated when your local council, local hospital, local school or government department just doesn't take disability equality seriously and discriminates without even thinking? Now is the chance to help them to sort it out. The Disability Equality Duty is a new way to help do this. This is a new approach for public authorities to make them tackle disability discrimination in a proactive and practical way. This guidance is aimed at disabled people and their local disability organisations to help them gear up for this new duty and to communicate the vital role which they have to play in utilising the effectiveness of this duty to achieve better disability equality outcomes from public services.
Employment and the disability equality duty: the disability equality duty and employment: a straightforward guide
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
The Disability Equality Duty is a new way to help do this. This is a new approach for public authorities to make them tackle disability discrimination in a proactive and practical way. This guidance is aimed at disabled people and their local disability organisations to help them gear up for this new duty and to communicate the vital role which they have to play in utilising the effectiveness of this duty to achieve better disability equality outcomes from public services.
Your rights at work: a guide for people with a learning disability and their supporters
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
This guide tells people with learning difficulties and their supporters about the kind of changes they can ask for when trying to get a job, or when employed.
The disability equality duty: guidance on gathering and analysing evidence to inform action
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
This guidance considers the practical issues involved in gathering and analysing evidence about disabled people as part of the public sector Disability Equality Duty. Along with a range of further Guidance documents this guidance will be of support for disabled people in the effective implementation of the duty and help meet organisations' overall strategic objectives. The Evidence Gathering Guidance includes a suggested standardised monitoring form.
The disability equality duty and involvement: guidance for public authorities on how to effectively involve disabled people
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
Public authorities have a legal duty to involve disabled people in creating their Disability Equality Schemes. This involvement must be planned, structured and significant. It will not be acceptable for public authorities simply to consult disabled people. The involvement with disabled people will need to be a much more active process. Alongside being a legal requirement, involvement is the key to achieving better public services for disabled people. Public authorities are not able to ensure disability equality without input from disabled people and their organisations. Central to the success of many involvement strategies will be the ability of public authorities to work with representative bodies of disabled people.
The social care sector and the disability equality duty: additional information for social care organisations working with children and young people in England
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
We all want to live in communities where we can participate fully and equally. When we need assistance, we want this to be delivered in ways which help us to be included in society. We know that for many disabled people this hasn’t yet happened and there remains considerable work to be done to reach this objective. To ensure we do so we have the Disability Equality Duty for the public sector and this includes organisations providing social care. This new legal duty will mean that any public body must look at ways of ensuring that disabled people are treated equally. A similar duty was introduced on race equality a couple of years ago. This new law requires organisations like yours to be proactive in ensuring that disabled people are treated fairly.
Housing and the disability equality duty: a guide to the disability equality duty and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 for the social housing sector
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 83p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
This Guidance is for those who plan, manage or deliver social sector housing. It explains the new rights and duties introduced by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, which amended the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA).