RADAR is strongly committed to promoting the Disability Equality Duty and supporting its effective implementation across all areas of life.
RADAR is strongly committed to promoting the Disability Equality Duty and supporting its effective implementation across all areas of life. The Duty is one of the most powerful tools we have to create a fair and just society for Deaf and disabled people.
It places a positive duty on all public authorities to promote disability equality, positive attitudes towards disabled people and our participation in public life. Disability equality needs to be factored into everything public bodies do: policy and practices around service delivery and employment, procurement, setting budgets, making public appointments, funding and regulatory roles. Mainstreaming disability equality produces huge benefits: not just for those of us who are directly affected, but in terms of improved performance by public authorities and better, more inclusive services for everyone in the community.
The Duty is not just about mainstreaming it’s about empowering disabled people to work in partnership with public authorities to shape the policies and services that affect our lives.
Achieving Equality for Disabled People in the Public Sector.
RADAR has been running a project, funded by the European Commission, which aims to identify, raise awareness of and disseminate good practice guidance on using the Disability Equality Duty (DED) to drive improvements in public services and performance and deliver greater equality and inclusion for disabled people.
Lights, Camera Action is RADAR's Guide to promoting Disability Equality in the public sector. Produced with the support of the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal opportunities of the European Commission, this guide is essential reading for all those in the public sector with an interest in making the Disability Equality Duty work to its full potential for disabled people, and it is essential reading for disabled people seeking to use the Duty to make a real difference.
Free copies of Lights, Camera, Action are available in all formats. For hard copies or copies in large print (please give font size and colour of paper required), audio, Braille and Easy read simply email disabilityequality@radar.org.uk
Our People of the Year Awards also showcased some stunning examples of best practice under the Disability Equality Duty. Here is a summary of best practice from the shortlist for the Public Sector Award 2008.
Beyond Good Intentions
“Beyond Good Intentions: Promoting disability equality in Britain in a statutory framework” discusses the learning and findings from our EC-backed project “Achieving Equality for disabled people in the public sector”. It highlights and discusses good practice in implementing the DED in order to support EU-based organisations in lobbying for similar positive public sector duties on disability in their countries.
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