Disability Equality Scheme
Disability Equality Scheme 2006-2009 [pdf document]
Addendum to the Disability Equality Scheme: March 2011 [pdf document]
Results of Monitoring Disabled Employees 2010/11 [pdf document]
The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 introduced a new duty on local authorities to promote disability equality. At the heart of the specific duties under the Act is a requirement to produce and publish a Disability Equality Scheme.
At the Council we welcomed this as a helpful way of underlining the commitments to disabled people that we made in “All Together Now: A Social Inclusion Strategy for Darlington”.
Disabled local people led the development of the scheme. The Council owes a debt of gratitude to the chair of the Scheme steering group, Gordon Pybus, of Darlington Association on Disability, and all the members of the group who have worked together on an honest appraisal of the Council’s disability equality performance.
In doing this they have been supported by the Council’s Social Inclusion Implementation Group, whose job it is to carry the Council’s commitment to equality through to the front line of service delivery. Together they have produced a Scheme that is plain to understand and clearly committed to action.