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Knowledge and awareness of the Disability Discrimination Act among service providers: summary report
- Author:
- EQUALITY COMMISSION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
- Publisher:
- Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 12p., col. ill.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This report provides a summary of the key findings of research which examined knowledge and awareness of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) amongst service providers in three sectors – retail, finance, and leisure and entertainment. The aim of this research was to explore the extent to which service providers within these sectors in Northern Ireland have responded to the DDA.
Acting against discrimination
- Author:
- KINRADE Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Nurse, 18(12), August 2003, pp.714-715.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on a survey which interviewed people with a variety of disabilities on their experiences in hospital. Results revealed that their needs were often not met and that they felt staff had negative views of disabled people.
Attitudes to discrimination in Scotland
- Authors:
- BROMLEY Catherine, CURTICE John
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 82p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This research has been instigated and developed collaboratively by a team involving representatives from the Commission for Racial Equality, Disability Rights Commission, Equal Opportunities Commission, Stonewall Scotland, the Scottish Executive and NatCen Scotland. The research is designed to answer three questions: what do Scots themselves believe is the extent of discriminatory attitudes in Scotland?; what is the extent and character of discriminatory attitudes in Scotland; and why do people hold discriminatory attitudes? These questions covered attitudes towards four groups: women, minority ethnic groups, disabled people, and gay men and lesbians.
Beyond good intentions: making anti-discrimination strategies work
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(5), August 2003, pp.625-642.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article seeks to explore some key questions about effectiveness in anti-discrimination work: what do we know of what works to reduce discrimination faced by disabled people? It takes, as its key focus, current work to reduce discrimination experienced by people who use mental health services, in Britain and internationally. It also looks at initiatives in wider disability communities. It argues on the basis of available evidence that initiatives are most likely to succeed if they effectively challenge the power that underpins discrimination, aim to transform beliefs amongst those with the power to discriminate, intervene carefully in the different components of 'discrimination', drawing on evidence of effectiveness and work within a comprehensive framework for ongoing anti-discrimination work. This means targeting anti-discrimination work at different levels and different sectors, working with a range of different organisations and groups, rather than dispersing resources through ad hoc, one-off mini-initiatives. There is no single solution to discrimination, but different elements of potential 'solutions' exist. What is needed is to bring different strands of work together. In particular, it would be helpful to forge a stronger synthesis between, on the one hand, securing legislative improvement and enforcement, and on the other, promoting the universal benefits of a more inclusive society. Each complements the other.