Tameside Disability Equality Scheme

Annual Update of the Disability Equality Scheme

As a part of Tameside Council’s duties under the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 the Disability Equality Scheme is updated annually to assess progress on the Disability Equality Action Plan. A copy of the 2007/08 Update of the Disability Equality Scheme 181.53 KB is now available. Alternatively for a hard copy, or if you require help reading this document please contact the Policy Unit using the contact details at the bottom of the page.

All councils are required to produce a Disability Equality Scheme under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 2005. The DDA 2005 extends the 1995 Act to include an active duty to promote disability equality. Under the duty public authorities are required to have due regard to the need to:

• Promote equality of opportunity between disabled people and others
• Eliminate unlawful discrimination
• Eliminate harassment of disabled people that is related to their disability
• Promote positive attitudes towards disabled people, even where that involves treating disabled people more favourably than others.

The purpose of the Disability Equality Scheme is to set out the Council's approach to planning and delivering disability equality, and to evaluating progress towards the objectives set out in the Disability Equality Scheme Action Plan.

View Tameside MBC Disability Equality Scheme 2006-09 199.09 KB

The plain english summary of the Disability Equality Scheme 90.6 KB is a short version of the main Scheme, explaining what the Council aims to do to achieve disability equality over the next three years. A large print version of the Disability Equality Scheme summary 96.61 KB is also available.

An easy-to-read version of the Disability Equality Scheme 379.7 KB is also available

If you would like a copy of the Council's Disability Equality Scheme in an alternative format (such as Braille, audio tape or on a CD-R), please contact the Council's Policy Unit.

Corporate Equality Scheme

Tameside Council’s Corporate Equality Scheme has been fully reviewed in 2007/08. As a part of this review, Tameside Council’s Race Disability and Gender Equality Schemes have been incorporated into a new single Corporate Equality Scheme for 2008-2011 2.17 MB . All further updates to the different action plans within the Corporate Equality Scheme will be published in this document.

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