Legislation and Other Drivers for Change

• Duty to promote disability equality

  • In force from December 2006

  • Similar to the duty to promote race equality under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act

  • Positive duty

    • shift from a legal framework which relies on individual disabled people complaining about discrimination to one in which public sector becomes a proactive agent of change.

Disability Discrimination Act 2005 - UK

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