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Enabling employment
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 13, May 2002, pp.39-40.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at what local authorities are doing to employ and support workers with disabilities and what able-bodied and disabled workers can both do to support each other.
The disabling council: a disability equality training video
- Author:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT BOARD
- Publisher:
- Local Government Management Board
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- Booklet and video.
- Place of publication:
- Luton
Booklet and video focusing on disability as a social construction. Aimed at local authority managers, development officers and all those concerned with disability issues, the pack is designed to be used as a training resource.
Disability law: time to act
- Author:
- CONNAGE Tracey
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Management, 1(18), Autumn 1996, pp.18-19.
Outlines the key employment provisions and implications of the new Disability Discrimination Act for local authorities.
Local authorities anti-discrimination code of practice
- Author:
- LONDON BOROUGHS DISABILITY RESOURCE TEAM
- Publisher:
- London Boroughs Disability Resource Team
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Intended to provide practical suggestions on basic steps that need to be taken by local authorities to provide equal opportunities and improve services for people with disabilities.
Make access easy for everyone
- Author:
- COOK Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 30.03.06, 2006, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
From December 2006 all public bodies, including councils, must promote disability equality for staff and everybody using their services. The author looks at how five councils have been working to improve equality. The article covers: involvement in decision making; employment; access to services; cooperation with public bodies and gathering better information about disabled staff and service users.
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.