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Code of practice: rights of access; goods, facilities, services and premises
- Author:
- EQUALITY COMMISSION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
- Publisher:
- Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 203p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
The Equality Commission has produced this Code of Practice on Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). The Code provides guidance for service providers on the measures they should take from October 2004 to ensure that physical features do not make their services impossible or unreasonably difficult for disabled people to use. The Act sets out four possible options for service providers: removing, altering or avoiding a physical feature, or providing the service by alternative means. The DDA does not prescribe what approach the service provider should use. However, the Commission believes that good practice and the most sensible approach will be to remove or alter the physical barrier to the service wherever this is possible. This is undoubtedly the most effective long term solution for both the service provider and disabled people.
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.