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Disability equality: making it happen; first review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 92p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
Legislation alone cannot create equality or change attitudes. However, it can set clear standards of acceptable behaviour and provide redress for individuals who have suffered injustice at the hands of others. The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) was the first formal acknowledgement in law of the existence of disability discrimination and the need for legal remedies to counter it. In this sense, the DDA has undoubtedly been a milestone rather than a millstone, to echo some of the comments of the time. Nevertheless, it was – and remains – limited in comparison with a full civil rights vision and flawed in some fundamental ways. The DDA has already been significantly strengthened since its passage in 1995. The Disability Rights Commission was established in April 2000 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 remedied one of the most substantial gaps in the law.