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The Disability Discrimination Act 2005: an audio guide
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- sound cassette
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides a brief commentary on the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act
Equality and diversity: a framework for review and action
- Authors:
- JEFFERY Joanna, SEAGER Richard
- Publisher:
- National Housing Federation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 69p., CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- London
The National Housing Federation here responds to the growing need to for guidance on how to conduct reviews of policies, functions, services and activities that covers the whole range of equality areas, these are race and ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality, age and faith and belief.
Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people: people with physical disabilities: Doug's story
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
In this film we meet Doug, a gay man with physical disabilities who is in residential accommodation eight miles away from his friends and family. Doug carefully considered when to ‘come out’ within residential care and explains that this is a continual process because of the high turnover of residential care staff.
Discrimination and insensitivity about Doug’s being ‘out’ to other residents and suggestions by his providers to ‘keep quiet’ around other residents are highlighted in the film. Doug feels he has little opportunity to meet other gay people, so he feels isolated and cut off from the gay community.
Doug believes that a cultural shift and change in attitudes in social care is vital in order to provide relevant care for LGBT people. He also feels that direct payments are only one part of a solution to offer more choice and control to the user of services.