<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338</id><updated>2010-05-12T16:34:49.186+01:00</updated><title type='text'>DCS NEWS BLOG</title><subtitle type='html'>This blog has been set up to keep you informed of news and views from around the U.K.of what is happening with the Disability Discrimination Act(DDA) and Disability Equality Duty(DED). The news items have been vetted for content and suitability by Andrew Robinson.</subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/dcsblog.htm'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/atom.xml'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>789</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-2749364666336355303</id><published>2010-05-12T16:34:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-12T16:34:49.253+01:00</updated><title type='text'>11/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://hr2.newport.ac.uk/diversity/E%26D%2520action%2520plan%2520V3.docx&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e0:p0:t1273574142:&amp;amp;cd=UgXg7kMkMMA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHBCnMEyC5xq8eZiy1ovIVPAGYNPg'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Equality&lt;/strong&gt; and Diversity Action Plan (Draft) - Human Resources at &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;1.2, To meet the legislative duty 2(3)(c) of the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; which the Impact Associates review of the University's first DES highlighted as &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://hr2.newport.ac.uk/diversity/E&amp;amp;D%20action%20plan%20V3.docx' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://hr2.newport.ac.uk/diversity/E%26D%2520action%2520plan%2520V3.docx&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e0:p0:t1273574142:&amp;amp;cd=UgXg7kMkMMA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHBCnMEyC5xq8eZiy1ovIVPAGYNPg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;hr2.newport.ac.uk/.../E&amp;amp;amp;D%20action%20plan%20V3.docx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-2749364666336355303?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/2749364666336355303/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=2749364666336355303' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/2749364666336355303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/2749364666336355303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/11052010.html' title='11/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-8518214877412792621</id><published>2010-05-11T10:00:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-11T10:00:00.491+01:00</updated><title type='text'>10/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.enable.org.uk/blogs/news_blog/%3Fp%3D2005&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e1:p1:t1273491527:&amp;amp;cd=MSSyr_OEciE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH7gi2rGdpDbCbATPPgGRplGTqGjA'&gt;Scottish Parliamentary Questions « Learning &lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt; Bulletin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By Lisa Sen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 (S3W-32727). Jamie Hepburn (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-32004 by Alex Neil MSP on 8 March 2010, whether the Scottish Ministers have &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.enable.org.uk/blogs/news_blog/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.enable.org.uk/blogs/news_blog/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e1:p1:t1273491527:&amp;amp;cd=MSSyr_OEciE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGpApRdN1H-6xOOu_eJqG8hmO3aeA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Learning Disability Bulletin - http://www.enable.org.uk/blogs/news_blog/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.thecompanymarketing.com/architecture/closing-the-gap-in-passenger-lift-and-platform-lift-design/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e3:p3:t1273491527:&amp;amp;cd=MSSyr_OEciE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEq2Oba_8LOv1hG0QAM_NtEmMDMmg'&gt;Closing The Gap In Passenger Lift And Platform Lift Design &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By admin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It is only since the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; (DDA) was passed, making sure public buildings have access for all, that lifts are also used for the disability impaired. As many of the older and smaller public buildings don't have &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.thecompanymarketing.com/architecture/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.thecompanymarketing.com/architecture/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e3:p3:t1273491527:&amp;amp;cd=MSSyr_OEciE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFtAuGb8RO9AS09n5ZQJRLSTqCoTg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Architecture Company - http://www.thecompanymarketing.com/architecture/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://employmentlaw.blogpunta.com/employment-law-discrimination-disability-discrimination-duty-to-make-reasonable-adjustments/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e6:p1:t1273491527:&amp;amp;cd=MSSyr_OEciE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFsSdzcAQLlfABz6jkxShqCA9fzHw'&gt;employment law » Blog Archive » Employment Law – &lt;strong&gt;Discrimination&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;										&lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Employment Law – Discrimination – Disability Discrimination – Duty to Make &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; pursuant to s.5(4) of the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 ("the Act"). &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://employmentlaw.blogpunta.com/employment-law-discrimination-disability-discrimination-duty-to-make-reasonable-adjustments/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://employmentlaw.blogpunta.com/employment-law-discrimination-disability-discrimination-duty-to-make-reasonable-adjustments/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e6:p1:t1273491527:&amp;amp;cd=MSSyr_OEciE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFsSdzcAQLlfABz6jkxShqCA9fzHw'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;employmentlaw.blogpunta.com/employment-law-discriminati...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;					&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-8518214877412792621?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/8518214877412792621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=8518214877412792621' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/8518214877412792621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/8518214877412792621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/10052010.html' title='10/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-6349171117320928064</id><published>2010-05-10T10:16:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T10:16:01.943+01:00</updated><title type='text'>09/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/information/publications/1007232.aspx&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e0:p0:t1273401275:&amp;amp;cd=wtgD6kNm9wM&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEjOBrYfYYg2NidIMhO1u7ix4F2lA'&gt;Scottish Arts Council - &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality&lt;/strong&gt; Scheme - Annual Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;As required by the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;, the Scottish Arts Council produces an Annual Report on progress made during the year (Dec 2008 – Nov 2009) on &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/information/publications/1007232.aspx' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/information/publications/1007232.aspx&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e0:p0:t1273401275:&amp;amp;cd=wtgD6kNm9wM&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEjOBrYfYYg2NidIMhO1u7ix4F2lA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/information/.../1007232.aspx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.essaydepot.com/documents/disability-act/1&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e2:p0:t1273404521:&amp;amp;cd=VMCRrGRxwkg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFzWRipAEZ2ASjoId4OuH5S0_Diyw'&gt;Free Essays on &lt;strong&gt;Disability Act&lt;/strong&gt; | 1 through 15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;This focuses on the inability of the individual. In contrast, the &lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;										&lt;strong&gt;Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 (Giddens 2006:287) defines "A person has a disability. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.essaydepot.com/documents/disability-act/1' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.essaydepot.com/documents/disability-act/1&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e2:p0:t1273404521:&amp;amp;cd=VMCRrGRxwkg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFzWRipAEZ2ASjoId4OuH5S0_Diyw'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.essaydepot.com/documents/disability-act/1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-6349171117320928064?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/6349171117320928064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=6349171117320928064' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/6349171117320928064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/6349171117320928064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/09052010.html' title='09/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-5576049620054817460</id><published>2010-05-10T10:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T10:11:44.533+01:00</updated><title type='text'>08/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://boscbooks.com/an-outline-of-disability-discrimination-rights-of-workers/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e3:p3:t1273318259:&amp;amp;cd=XIPYfG1csxA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF9g49iwwLzjA7RESWcYtPImMvETg'&gt;An Outline of &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; Rights of Workers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By admin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION&lt;/strong&gt; IN EMPLOYEMENT AND DISABLED WORKERS' RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACEThe Disabled Persons (Employment) &lt;strong&gt;Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1944 requires the employers with.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://boscbooks.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://boscbooks.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e3:p3:t1273318259:&amp;amp;cd=XIPYfG1csxA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGIXiOotIu6qeK8m_ddbr9bcycgYw'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Special Needs Children Information... - http://boscbooks.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-5576049620054817460?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/5576049620054817460/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=5576049620054817460' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/5576049620054817460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/5576049620054817460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/08052010.html' title='08/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-1034140982004190293</id><published>2010-05-10T10:05:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T10:05:35.741+01:00</updated><title type='text'>07/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.financialdirector.co.uk/accountancyage/news/2262634/pwc-partner-claims&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lt:e0:p0:t1273231782:&amp;amp;cd=ZH88vvgQlzc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEvV5Q-fD81-jl9KZkVdBTMPuRYgQ'&gt;PwC ex-partner claims &lt;strong&gt;discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; over stress leave&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;Financial Director&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;He also claims that the firm failed to make the reasonable adjustments they were required to make under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; in order to &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.financialdirector.co.uk/accountancyage/news/2262634/pwc-partner-claims&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.financialdirector.co.uk/accountancyage/news/2262634/pwc-partner-claims%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lr:e0:p0:t1273231782:&amp;amp;cd=ZH88vvgQlzc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNENIAGzigVqLRszz6bNZqWSb4Yfhw'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/articles/2010/05/former-pwc-partner-claims-stress-discrimination.htm&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e5:p1:t1273231782:&amp;amp;cd=ZH88vvgQlzc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGJTTu_v2UBwoyV2wGDKn3UXn5oUQ'&gt;Former PwC partner claims stress &lt;strong&gt;discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; - People &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;A former partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers has taken the company to an employment tribunal, alleging disability discrimination following his redundancy while on sick leave. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; of a relative for whom the employee is caring." PwC has denied that Tenner was required to retire from the partnership for any reason other than redundancy. The company also denies it failed to make reasonable adjustments or that it has breached the provisions of the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/subjects/employment-law/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/subjects/employment-law/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e5:p1:t1273231782:&amp;amp;cd=ZH88vvgQlzc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHRtK-Ab0B899mZUFTWt5Y7oVb6mQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Employment law from People Management - http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/subjects/employment-law/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-1034140982004190293?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/1034140982004190293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=1034140982004190293' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/1034140982004190293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/1034140982004190293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/07052010.html' title='07/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-2987743329170322251</id><published>2010-05-07T09:49:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-07T09:49:59.222+01:00</updated><title type='text'>06/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.bestrxcare.com/introducing-the-single-equality-bill&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e2:p1:t1273145326:&amp;amp;cd=7JrSpgK1p_c&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFwPXzgzdxjQhd_CFNJeNdy9Ig7CQ'&gt;Introducing the Single Equality Bill | Insurance and legal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By Author &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;1970 Equal Pay Act. Race Relations Act 1976. Sex Discrimination Act 1975. 1995 &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;. Equality Act 2006. These are in fact just a sample of the various legislation that will be superceded by this bill. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.bestrxcare.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.bestrxcare.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e2:p1:t1273145326:&amp;amp;cd=7JrSpgK1p_c&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF14N3BSaEK03gQc2I4j6V_Si3tbQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Insurance and legal - http://www.bestrxcare.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/05/05/exclusive-green-party-leader-caroline-lucas-answers-your-questions/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e3:p2:t1273145326:&amp;amp;cd=7JrSpgK1p_c&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEl2fND2XMdrfnkYcj82eUXxTxgHA'&gt;Exclusive: Green Party leader Caroline Lucas answers your &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It is totally unacceptable that despite the positive aspects of the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 2005, there is still so much work to be done on disability. It is appalling that accessibility for example is still poor, &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.pinknews.co.uk/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e3:p2:t1273145326:&amp;amp;cd=7JrSpgK1p_c&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNElZkDsbiySojVNyh9c2DQialZ2uA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Pink News - http://www.pinknews.co.uk/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.dailygaggle.com/2010/05/battle-of-trafalgar-revisited-in-20010.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e5:p4:t1273145326:&amp;amp;cd=7JrSpgK1p_c&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHmYD21tleTMFuU_zY765C6vmMn2g'&gt;dailygaggle.com: The Battle of Trafalgar Revisited in 20010( Or &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By Vest &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Hardy: "&lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;, sir. We have to provide a barrier-free environment for the differently abled." Nelson: "Differently abled? I've only one arm and one eye and I refuse even to hear mention of the word. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.dailygaggle.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.dailygaggle.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e5:p4:t1273145326:&amp;amp;cd=7JrSpgK1p_c&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFCQOit3f_2y4Eq0SF6p2r6QhRhvQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;dailygaggle.com - http://www.dailygaggle.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;					&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.smithdon.norfolk.sch.uk/media/Policies/Disability%2520Equality%2520Scheme.pdf&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e0:p0:t1273142133:&amp;amp;cd=cJvrJKUDdmw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNESkk-qJUzaCLuQZfh3efHZa0Kcdg'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality&lt;/strong&gt; - SMITHDON HIGH SCHOOL INTERIM &lt;strong&gt;DISABILITY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;										&lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;policies and practices meet the legal responsibilities of the &lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;										&lt;strong&gt;Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;. The recruitment of disabled employees &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.smithdon.norfolk.sch.uk/media/Policies/Disability%20Equality%20Scheme.pdf' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.smithdon.norfolk.sch.uk/media/Policies/Disability%2520Equality%2520Scheme.pdf&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e0:p0:t1273142133:&amp;amp;cd=cJvrJKUDdmw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNESkk-qJUzaCLuQZfh3efHZa0Kcdg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.smithdon.norfolk.sch.uk/.../Disability%20Equality%20S...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-2987743329170322251?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/2987743329170322251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=2987743329170322251' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/2987743329170322251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/2987743329170322251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/06052010.html' title='06/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-5930649606397738378</id><published>2010-05-06T18:50:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-06T18:50:18.413+01:00</updated><title type='text'>05/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://newsfrombrighton.co.uk/brighton-education-news/sussex-university/university-of-sussex-accused-of-breaching-equality-law/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e0:p0:t1273055657:&amp;amp;cd=bdDpguLYK7I&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFez0NGCDb-f-QVJ3Wl5xLao4NHew'&gt;University of Sussex accused of breaching &lt;strong&gt;equality&lt;/strong&gt; law | News From &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By Joseph Lewis &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;These proposals directly affect disabled students in a number of ways: HIV is covered by the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; (DED) so the closure of Unisex directly impacts on disabled students. Student advisers are responsible for the &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://newsfrombrighton.co.uk/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://newsfrombrighton.co.uk/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e0:p0:t1273055657:&amp;amp;cd=bdDpguLYK7I&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHLNexz2uCY9WGiE6PrrzOEH6G03g'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;News From Brighton - http://newsfrombrighton.co.uk/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.southstaffshealthcare.nhs.uk/work/equality-and-diversity/disability-equality-scheme.aspx&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e1:p0:t1273055657:&amp;amp;cd=bdDpguLYK7I&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGzZlUnTrOtpAbWZwGqzBxIzJMcsQ'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality&lt;/strong&gt; Scheme : &lt;strong&gt;Equality&lt;/strong&gt; and Diversity : Work : South &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;work - &lt;strong&gt;equality&lt;/strong&gt; and diversity - &lt;strong&gt;disability equality&lt;/strong&gt; scheme.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.southstaffshealthcare.nhs.uk/work/equality-and-diversity/disability-equality-scheme.aspx' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.southstaffshealthcare.nhs.uk/work/equality-and-diversity/disability-equality-scheme.aspx&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e1:p0:t1273055657:&amp;amp;cd=bdDpguLYK7I&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGzZlUnTrOtpAbWZwGqzBxIzJMcsQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.southstaffshealthcare.nhs.uk/.../disability-equality-schem...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.eastridingofyorkshire.nhs.uk/upload/HERHIS/East%2520Riding%2520PCTs/Document%2520Store/E%2520%26%2520D/E%26D%2520Joint%2520Board%2520Papers/11%2520January%25202010%2520-%25207b%2520-%2520Proposal%2520for%2520the%2520Disability%2520Advisory%2520and%2520Monitoring%2520Group%2520Final.pdf&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e2:p1:t1273055657:&amp;amp;cd=bdDpguLYK7I&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEJzoDIlx_G-d-QiVirLyNh1_V6rg'&gt;Proposal for a revised &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality&lt;/strong&gt; Review Group (DERG) 1 &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Similarly, the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; (DED) which came into force in December 2006 set out that all public organisations &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.eastridingofyorkshire.nhs.uk/upload/HERHIS/East%20Riding%20PCTs/Document%20Store/E%20&amp;amp;%20D/E&amp;amp;D%20Joint%20Board%20Papers/11%20January%202010%20-%207b%20-%20Proposal%20for%20the%20Disability%20Advisory%20and%20Monitoring%20Group%20Final.pdf' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.eastridingofyorkshire.nhs.uk/upload/HERHIS/East%2520Riding%2520PCTs/Document%2520Store/E%2520%26%2520D/E%26D%2520Joint%2520Board%2520Papers/11%2520January%25202010%2520-%25207b%2520-%2520Proposal%2520for%2520the%2520Disability%2520Advisory%2520and%2520Monitoring%2520Group%2520Final.pdf&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e2:p1:t1273055657:&amp;amp;cd=bdDpguLYK7I&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEJzoDIlx_G-d-QiVirLyNh1_V6rg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.eastridingofyorkshire.nhs.uk/.../11%20January%202010...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://awickes.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/landmark-case-widens-scope-of-disability/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e1:p1:t1273058904:&amp;amp;cd=zTwWua4B_dg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFYBp8R_vemUJooASVWFu64WMu3BQ'&gt;Landmark Case Widens Scope of &lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt; « AP Partnership's Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By AP Partnership &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Ms Boyle believed that the increased noise levels would have a substantial adverse effect on her health and in October 2001 she began proceedings under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; alleging discrimination on grounds of her &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://awickes.wordpress.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://awickes.wordpress.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e1:p1:t1273058904:&amp;amp;cd=zTwWua4B_dg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEUC-YdcO5Y3b54ictdk30OgOy3bQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;AP Partnership's Blog - http://awickes.wordpress.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-5930649606397738378?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/5930649606397738378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=5930649606397738378' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/5930649606397738378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/5930649606397738378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/05052010.html' title='05/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-1506399755375545216</id><published>2010-05-05T11:31:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T11:31:50.124+01:00</updated><title type='text'>04/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lt:e0:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGU5RiWEH7joozUNqsau3WJp2sqXg'&gt;PR boss to appeal &lt;strong&gt;disability&lt;/strong&gt; tribunal ruling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;BBC News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A mentally ill PR manager who was sacked by VisitScotland has vowed to appeal after losing his &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; case. Richard Saville-Smith took &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lr:e0:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEz1kBuThzOMDrpXaYgH2lZHAVWGA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/%3Foid%3DMultiPartArticle-id-2966410&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e0:p0:t1272969238:&amp;amp;cd=IVrKjEmag-o&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEdBRyLBwSQCMABoqtktY4gp78Q5g'&gt;West Sussex Grid for Learning: &lt;strong&gt;Disability equality duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Guidance for schools and settings on meeting the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=MultiPartArticle-id-2966410' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/%3Foid%3DMultiPartArticle-id-2966410&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e0:p0:t1272969238:&amp;amp;cd=IVrKjEmag-o&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEdBRyLBwSQCMABoqtktY4gp78Q5g'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=MultiPartArticle-id...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-1506399755375545216?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/1506399755375545216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=1506399755375545216' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/1506399755375545216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/1506399755375545216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/04052010.html' title='04/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-8604431872678740908</id><published>2010-05-05T11:31:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T11:31:00.977+01:00</updated><title type='text'>03/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lt:e0:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGU5RiWEH7joozUNqsau3WJp2sqXg'&gt;PR boss to appeal &lt;strong&gt;disability&lt;/strong&gt; tribunal ruling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;BBC News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A mentally ill PR manager who was sacked by VisitScotland has vowed to appeal after losing his &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; case. Richard Saville-Smith took &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lr:e0:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEz1kBuThzOMDrpXaYgH2lZHAVWGA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://site-press.com/appeals-insider/appeal-news/when-ignorance-is-bliss/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e1:p0:t1272886127:&amp;amp;cd=qL8dw3sXqsk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFd4Sd8Tjw9EYcAj87grXlxuYpX-w'&gt;When Ignorance Is Bliss | The Court Appeals Insider&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By appeal_admin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 imposes a general duty on employers to make reasonable adjustments so that disabled employees are not placed at a substantial disadvantage compared to non-disabled employees. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://site-press.com/appeals-insider/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://site-press.com/appeals-insider/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e1:p0:t1272886127:&amp;amp;cd=qL8dw3sXqsk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGDs9ER6KFheSpVbwR0RKpaYPenFQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;The Court Appeals Insider - http://site-press.com/appeals-insider/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-8604431872678740908?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/8604431872678740908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=8604431872678740908' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/8604431872678740908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/8604431872678740908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/03052010.html' title='03/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-5775587595810614826</id><published>2010-05-05T11:30:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T11:30:14.261+01:00</updated><title type='text'>02/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lt:e0:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGU5RiWEH7joozUNqsau3WJp2sqXg'&gt;PR boss to appeal &lt;strong&gt;disability&lt;/strong&gt; tribunal ruling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;BBC News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A mentally ill PR manager who was sacked by VisitScotland has vowed to appeal after losing his &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; case. Richard Saville-Smith took &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lr:e0:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEz1kBuThzOMDrpXaYgH2lZHAVWGA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.bsuh.nhs.uk/work-and-learn/equality-and-diversity/%3Fassetesctl4983924%3D52550&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e1:p0:t1272796434:&amp;amp;cd=obXZG8iZTLo&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGBLvQVWF35iaOV28uJE_2FrHkv-Q'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISABILITY EQUALITY&lt;/strong&gt; SCHEME&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;"The Duty to Promote Disability Equality" - Disability Rights Commission &lt;strong&gt;.....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;										&lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;. Awareness training where necessary. Ongoing &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.bsuh.nhs.uk/work-and-learn/equality-and-diversity/?assetesctl4983924=52550' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.bsuh.nhs.uk/work-and-learn/equality-and-diversity/%3Fassetesctl4983924%3D52550&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e1:p0:t1272796434:&amp;amp;cd=obXZG8iZTLo&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGBLvQVWF35iaOV28uJE_2FrHkv-Q'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.bsuh.nhs.uk/work-and-learn/equality-and-diversity/?...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://stewartstevenson.blogspot.com/2010/05/snp-govt-urge-reversal-of-slashing.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e1:p1:t1272799705:&amp;amp;cd=3gELXdfiZsE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFRFjFm14JfHnnnNFhYWI_lgwKQHA'&gt;Stewart Stevenson - Working for You: SNP Govt Urge Reversal Of &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By Stewart Stevenson &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Disabled access to the rail network is a matter reserved to Westminster, as it sits within equalities legislation such as the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;. The Access for All Small Schemes Fund improves access to the network for &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://stewartstevenson.blogspot.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://stewartstevenson.blogspot.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e1:p1:t1272799705:&amp;amp;cd=3gELXdfiZsE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHrXOibzPeXEelYYv6LLeUIT6-KnA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Stewart Stevenson - Working for You - http://stewartstevenson.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-5775587595810614826?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/5775587595810614826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=5775587595810614826' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/5775587595810614826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/5775587595810614826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/02052010.html' title='02/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-6616111919230835615</id><published>2010-05-05T11:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T11:26:23.337+01:00</updated><title type='text'>01/05/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lt:e0:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGU5RiWEH7joozUNqsau3WJp2sqXg'&gt;PR boss to appeal &lt;strong&gt;disability&lt;/strong&gt; tribunal ruling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;BBC News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A mentally ill PR manager who was sacked by VisitScotland has vowed to appeal after losing his &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; case. Richard Saville-Smith took &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8654032.stm%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lr:e0:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEz1kBuThzOMDrpXaYgH2lZHAVWGA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://caledonianmercury.com/2010/04/30/homecoming-scotland-pr-chief-loses-discrimination-claim/006693&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e2:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNErskZzD4vkc5HPtSRnWNBmc_C3aA'&gt;Homecoming Scotland PR chief loses &lt;strong&gt;discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; claim &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By Guest Writer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Mr Saville Smith, 48, had lodged his claim under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;. In a majority judgment, a tribunal sitting in Edinburgh has rejected his claim because his employer, VisitScotland, had not breached the act. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://caledonianmercury.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://caledonianmercury.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e2:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF2qDJh89DD8JXgbFn5UTMhAxEoNw'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Caledonian Mercury: Scottish... - http://caledonianmercury.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.workplacelaw.net/news/display/id/27552&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e3:p1:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEomxfNEdl7EJ3BD9eL6sl83CMhrg'&gt;Terms of &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; redefined - Workplace Law &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The House of Lords has redefined the terms of the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; as a result of a decade-long employment case, it has been reported. Previously the law stated that an employer only had to make reasonable adjustments if &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.workplacelaw.net/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.workplacelaw.net/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e3:p1:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHTqmRvGr0UHGLfuUx9XfICWY3rrQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Workplace Law Network - Member content - http://www.workplacelaw.net/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20100430094437AATImM4&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e4:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHxENCiaTq0dVNHloxct0-jbnDBjg'&gt;Schools &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination&lt;/strong&gt;? - Yahoo! Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;there is a &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination act&lt;/strong&gt;, which you can google to find out more information on the head should be made aware of this fact, and as this was a &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100430094437AATImM4' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20100430094437AATImM4&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e4:p0:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHxENCiaTq0dVNHloxct0-jbnDBjg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question889924.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e5:p1:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHwP5wVdUhV6tXnf5D7Y_T-O1wnUA'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; - Refused access to DWP building! in &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;I am currently using a wheelchair, as my mobility is very limited at the &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; unbelievable you could not make that up, crazy, i wish you luck &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; I know many people &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question889924.html' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question889924.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e5:p1:t1272713308:&amp;amp;cd=T65w4hba9w0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHwP5wVdUhV6tXnf5D7Y_T-O1wnUA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question889924.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;					&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-6616111919230835615?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/6616111919230835615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=6616111919230835615' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/6616111919230835615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/6616111919230835615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/01052010.html' title='01/05/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-362592199818413754</id><published>2010-05-05T11:22:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T11:22:06.354+01:00</updated><title type='text'>30/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/tourist-body-is-slated-for-role-in-sacking-1.1024158&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lt:e0:p0:t1272626951:&amp;amp;cd=_QdvthfMIFA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHoFCJ8uNrSaQG8sI_giHUzqJOiSw'&gt;Tourist body is slated for role in sacking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;The Herald&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Mr Saville-Smith, who needed psychiatric treatment after just a few weeks in the role, lodged a claim under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; and despite &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/tourist-body-is-slated-for-role-in-sacking-1.1024158&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/tourist-body-is-slated-for-role-in-sacking-1.1024158%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i0:lr:e0:p0:t1272626951:&amp;amp;cd=_QdvthfMIFA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF0Wq0L-3eMleDWMxWMZW-nd5LFsw'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.disabled-world.com/news/uk/customers-disability.php&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e2:p0:t1272626951:&amp;amp;cd=_QdvthfMIFA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG-_69yF4JjQtgwwjmzAAKhpDpB7Q'&gt;Shops and Services Still Failing Customers with &lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;On Tuesday 6 April the new Equality Act, which the charity supports, was passed through parliament. It replaces the current &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; and provides an opportunity to make key improvements to the way in which the law &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.disabled-world.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.disabled-world.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e2:p0:t1272626951:&amp;amp;cd=_QdvthfMIFA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEUyW7HBAEYMf_6Sl9DjouEl9VVFQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Disabled World - http://www.disabled-world.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://savethecombinationroom.blogspot.com/2010/04/professor-c-f-forsyths-remarks.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e3:p1:t1272626951:&amp;amp;cd=_QdvthfMIFA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEiLjQBcyo-Qn4jRbrRiSCswVyEMQ'&gt;Save the University Combination Room: Professor C F Forsyth's Remarks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By Save the University Combination Room &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It is true, of course, that it is the University's obligations under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 that led the Old Schools to decide to build the lift. But the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; does not require the University to &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://savethecombinationroom.blogspot.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://savethecombinationroom.blogspot.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e3:p1:t1272626951:&amp;amp;cd=_QdvthfMIFA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFDdgHlvYc8iCryGfcaha2F3GnFng'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Save the University Combination Room - http://savethecombinationroom.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.dreamwisetravels.com/disability-act-hotels/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e5:p3:t1272626951:&amp;amp;cd=_QdvthfMIFA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHLsdD6Z-jJeSyHvXIKsYt1Q1EI6g'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability Act&lt;/strong&gt; Hotels | DreamWiseTravels.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By admin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;according to the UK &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;, a highly-successful international hotel chain would be legally required to install new toilets that are wheelchair accessible, while a family-run restaurant with a small budget may not &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.dreamwisetravels.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.dreamwisetravels.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e5:p3:t1272626951:&amp;amp;cd=_QdvthfMIFA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHenHbaC0aInQBgcN5a3ULCoIIV_Q'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;DreamWiseTravels.com - http://www.dreamwisetravels.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-362592199818413754?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/362592199818413754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=362592199818413754' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/362592199818413754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/362592199818413754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/05/30042010.html' title='30/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-2176022154828334102</id><published>2010-04-30T11:23:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T11:23:09.940+01:00</updated><title type='text'>28/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://samedifference1.com/2010/04/29/wheelchair-athlete-refused-flight-by-eastern-airways-on-grounds-of-safety/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e2:p0:t1272540506:&amp;amp;cd=VHk9zivcLGc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGNxvxroYf5Ujw5vg-yRKe53SmvnA'&gt;Wheelchair Athlete Refused Flight By Eastern Airways On Grounds Of &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By samedifference1 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Hasn't Eastern Airways heard of the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;? Or worse- don't they care that they so obviously broke it last week? A wheelchair athlete heading for a race is angry he was stopped from boarding a flight on safety &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://samedifference1.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://samedifference1.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e2:p0:t1272540506:&amp;amp;cd=VHk9zivcLGc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGPAA9LtuXu3ixT6syaigg14HmD6A'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Same Difference - http://samedifference1.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://janiecoakley.enumid.com/2010/04/28/employment-law-discrimination-disability-discrimination-duty-to-make-reasonable-adjustments/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:lt:e3:p1:t1272540506:&amp;amp;cd=VHk9zivcLGc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE7lWF_CLUHU6SyVavRb2QUdvMMrA'&gt;Janie Coakley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By accounter &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The employer submitted that the tribunal had erred in failing to consider justification for the breach of duty pursuant to s.5(4) of the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 ("the Act"). It argued that the tribunal ought to have addressed &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://janiecoakley.enumid.com/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://janiecoakley.enumid.com/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i2:ls:e3:p1:t1272540506:&amp;amp;cd=VHk9zivcLGc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGnBiO7nM0xt-wSCr3EuqCFIVbcIg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Janie Coakley - http://janiecoakley.enumid.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://fitnote.net/resources/DDAforFitnote.doc&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e6:p2:t1272540506:&amp;amp;cd=VHk9zivcLGc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF-gRzvaewt3BrEptjOu3HuGqVWow'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;It is a legal requirement under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; (amended 2005) for all employers to develop and implement a Disability Equality Scheme &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://fitnote.net/resources/DDAforFitnote.doc' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://fitnote.net/resources/DDAforFitnote.doc&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e6:p2:t1272540506:&amp;amp;cd=VHk9zivcLGc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF-gRzvaewt3BrEptjOu3HuGqVWow'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;fitnote.net/resources/DDAforFitnote.doc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/messageboards/F2322273%3Fthread%3D7468080&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:lt:e0:p0:t1272537252:&amp;amp;cd=epMsYMeXL7c&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEFyfb0ha6PnXuB3bRVbvebeMoOpQ'&gt;BBC - Ouch! (&lt;strong&gt;disability&lt;/strong&gt;) - Messageboard Ouch! Talk - Public &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The section on the new public sector equality duty within the Equality Act 2010 &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; acknowledging the overall failure to meet the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/messageboards/F2322273?thread=7468080' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/messageboards/F2322273%3Fthread%3D7468080&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=:s7:f2:v0:i1:ld:e0:p0:t1272537252:&amp;amp;cd=epMsYMeXL7c&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEFyfb0ha6PnXuB3bRVbvebeMoOpQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/messageboards/F2322273?thread...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-2176022154828334102?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/2176022154828334102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=2176022154828334102' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/2176022154828334102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/2176022154828334102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/28042010_30.html' title='28/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-739737111231996296</id><published>2010-04-30T11:10:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T11:10:51.441+01:00</updated><title type='text'>28/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://ncclols.blogspot.com/2010/04/theres-just-nothing-we-can-do.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=KO2oDgUEypk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEBX6082G7Mj25BrXgUnAPF4Y_AaA'&gt;Nottingham City Council LOLs: There's Just Nothing We Can Do...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By allnottinghambasearebelongtous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You see one of the effects of depression, of which I suffer following NCC's appalling treatment of me when I worked for them, and which is defined as a disability under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;, is that you often find that you &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://ncclols.blogspot.com/' href='http://ncclols.blogspot.com/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Nottingham City Council LOLs - http://ncclols.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread%3Ftid%3D4292fec2e539ac85%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=KO2oDgUEypk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHCcmzVz1u14jIwJL7FjOZMYDBPLA'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT&lt;/strong&gt; COMPLIANCE FOR PEOPLE WITH VISUAL &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT&lt;/strong&gt; COMPLIANCE FOR PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS AND OTHER DISABILITIES.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4292fec2e539ac85&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread%3Ftid%3D4292fec2e539ac85%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=KO2oDgUEypk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHCcmzVz1u14jIwJL7FjOZMYDBPLA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.prlog.org/10649538-is-your-website-accessible-by-the-disabled-the-law-says-it-should-be.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=KO2oDgUEypk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHmSll9QR4HGH9rF37r86lqL6YpKQ'&gt;Is Your Website Accessible By The Disabled? The Law Says It Should Be&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 (DDA), legal obligations for website providers to make their websites accessible to the disabled have existed &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.prlog.org/10649538-is-your-website-accessible-by-the-disabled-the-law-says-it-should-be.html' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.prlog.org/10649538-is-your-website-accessible-by-the-disabled-the-law-says-it-should-be.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=KO2oDgUEypk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHmSll9QR4HGH9rF37r86lqL6YpKQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.prlog.org/10649538-is-your-website-accessible-by-the-d...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-739737111231996296?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/739737111231996296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=739737111231996296' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/739737111231996296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/739737111231996296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/28042010.html' title='28/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-4655190712057916843</id><published>2010-04-28T14:28:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-28T14:28:28.214+01:00</updated><title type='text'>27/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.swindon.nhs.uk/publications/Race_disabilityandgender_audit.pdf&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=uu0Ef1_Hq9U&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHTxYGhVaL_a9yhQfbF20C3kp8SXw'&gt;Race, &lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt; and Gender Equalities Schemes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;specific actions with &lt;strong&gt;disability&lt;/strong&gt; focus. Gender &lt;strong&gt;Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; (2007) – Achievements. &lt;span style='font-family:MS Mincho'&gt;❑&lt;/span&gt; PCT has a Screening tool to assess the relevance of functions &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.swindon.nhs.uk/publications/Race_disabilityandgender_audit.pdf' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.swindon.nhs.uk/publications/Race_disabilityandgender_audit.pdf&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=uu0Ef1_Hq9U&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHTxYGhVaL_a9yhQfbF20C3kp8SXw'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.swindon.nhs.uk/.../Race_disabilityandgender_audit.pdf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://pureshpower.blogspot.com/2010/04/election-fever-voting.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=gsSjShjCPYs&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE1lffDx4lXN0XzE0uoistpk09n5A'&gt;Puresh Power: Election Fever &amp;amp; Voting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By Danny Puresh &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; (1995), service providers are legally obliged to make any 'reasonable' physical adjustments to their premises to make them accessible to disabled people. This legislation covers polling stations. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://pureshpower.blogspot.com/' href='http://pureshpower.blogspot.com/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Puresh Power - http://pureshpower.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-4655190712057916843?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/4655190712057916843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=4655190712057916843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/4655190712057916843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/4655190712057916843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/27042010.html' title='27/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-7792354656505560231</id><published>2010-04-27T13:31:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-27T13:31:50.610+01:00</updated><title type='text'>26/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://press-releases.techwhack.com/51316-accessible&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=QaOg84DCyws&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHFHV149awQKr23GSbWV20xJ4oX4Q'&gt;Is your website accessible by the disabled? The law says it should be&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;TechWhack (press release)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Website owners have had a legal &lt;strong&gt;duty&lt;/strong&gt; to make their websites accessible to the disabled for more than a decade. With the new &lt;strong&gt;Equality&lt;/strong&gt; Act 2010 reinforcing &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.warrington.gov.uk/images/Disability%2520Equality%2520Schemes%2520and%2520Schools_tcm15-43259.pdf&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=QaOg84DCyws&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGGueIX_JIcI0lyAnSl8QoWM0DuCQ'&gt;WARRINGTON BOROUGH COUNCIL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERVICES &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; consists of two duties: &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; The specific duty, which requires schools to produce a Disability Equality. Scheme. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.warrington.gov.uk/images/Disability%20Equality%20Schemes%20and%20Schools_tcm15-43259.pdf' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.warrington.gov.uk/images/Disability%2520Equality%2520Schemes%2520and%2520Schools_tcm15-43259.pdf&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=QaOg84DCyws&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGGueIX_JIcI0lyAnSl8QoWM0DuCQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.warrington.gov.uk/.../Disability%20Equality%20Scheme...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Library/PDF/Living/Consultation/Alum%2520Chine%2520Gardens%2520and%2520Argyle%2520Gardens%2520Disability%2520Survey.pdf&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=QaOg84DCyws&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEPYKYhgELv2TUxG125WTM__HnGig'&gt;Alum Chine Gardens and Argyle Gardens &lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt; Survey Prepared &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;changes brought about by the public sector &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; (2006). The purpose of the new Duty is to embed disability equality in policy and &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Library/PDF/Living/Consultation/Alum%20Chine%20Gardens%20and%20Argyle%20Gardens%20Disability%20Survey.pdf' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Library/PDF/Living/Consultation/Alum%2520Chine%2520Gardens%2520and%2520Argyle%2520Gardens%2520Disability%2520Survey.pdf&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=QaOg84DCyws&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEPYKYhgELv2TUxG125WTM__HnGig'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.bournemouth.gov.uk/.../Alum%20Chine%20Gardens%2...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Disability%2Bdiscrimination%2Band%2Bthe%2BEquality%2BAct%2B2010.-a0224454926&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=qzAgT96NU_k&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGrSj_iT_vp7umVPdLKLCmMR0xXpA'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; and the Equality &lt;strong&gt;Act&lt;/strong&gt; 2010. - Free Online &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Free Online Library: &lt;strong&gt;Disability discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; and the Equality &lt;strong&gt;Act&lt;/strong&gt; 2010.(News) by "The Journal (Newcastle, England)"; Business Business, international News &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Disability+discrimination+and+the+Equality+Act+2010.-a0224454926' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Disability%2Bdiscrimination%2Band%2Bthe%2BEquality%2BAct%2B2010.-a0224454926&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=qzAgT96NU_k&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGrSj_iT_vp7umVPdLKLCmMR0xXpA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.thefreelibrary.com/Disability+discrimination+and+the+E...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-7792354656505560231?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/7792354656505560231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=7792354656505560231' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/7792354656505560231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/7792354656505560231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/26042010.html' title='26/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-4102568756213497595</id><published>2010-04-26T11:30:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-26T11:30:14.245+01:00</updated><title type='text'>24/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.rnid.org.uk/Content.aspx%3Fid%3D101703%26ciid%3D351003&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=BslyMf5-VLg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHOIp3qkE1Pd77dReGID6CdzmRGZQ'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; (DED) – a guide for people who are deaf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; (DED) is a framework for public authorities to build &lt;strong&gt;.....&lt;/strong&gt; Schemes and the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href='http://www.dotheduty.org'&gt;www.dotheduty.org&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.rnid.org.uk/Content.aspx?id=101703&amp;amp;ciid=351003' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.rnid.org.uk/Content.aspx%3Fid%3D101703%26ciid%3D351003&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=BslyMf5-VLg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHOIp3qkE1Pd77dReGID6CdzmRGZQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.rnid.org.uk/Content.aspx?id=101703&amp;amp;amp;ciid=351003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.hdft.nhs.uk/EasysiteWeb/getresource.axd%3FAssetID%3D4026%26type%3DFull%26servicetype%3DAttachment&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=BslyMf5-VLg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGDwtWkAR7dSytJ7mOLbLT9668CHw'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EQUALITY&lt;/strong&gt; IMPACT ASSESSMENT STAGE 2: FULL ASSESSMENT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Under the specific &lt;strong&gt;duty&lt;/strong&gt; to produce and publish Race, &lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt; and Gender &lt;strong&gt;Equality&lt;/strong&gt; Schemes, the Trust must make arrangements for publishing the results of &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.hdft.nhs.uk/EasysiteWeb/getresource.axd?AssetID=4026&amp;amp;type=Full&amp;amp;servicetype=Attachment' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.hdft.nhs.uk/EasysiteWeb/getresource.axd%3FAssetID%3D4026%26type%3DFull%26servicetype%3DAttachment&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=BslyMf5-VLg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGDwtWkAR7dSytJ7mOLbLT9668CHw'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.hdft.nhs.uk/EasysiteWeb/getresource.axd?AssetID...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-4102568756213497595?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/4102568756213497595/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=4102568756213497595' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/4102568756213497595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/4102568756213497595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/24042010.html' title='24/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-4529794317240066988</id><published>2010-04-26T11:28:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-26T11:28:58.724+01:00</updated><title type='text'>23/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8635900.stm&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=5F0O17HU_3Q&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF9DBcENkxV9KzDZ1BoEQ-ysQJQWw'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; case makes history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;BBC News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In October 2001 she began proceedings under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; alleging discrimination on grounds of her employer's failure to make &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8635900.stm&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8635900.stm%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=5F0O17HU_3Q&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGtcuQx1T9hLgOqinZJyzdDaqinkg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.shoosmiths.co.uk/news/2982.asp&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=5F0O17HU_3Q&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGShbsJVr21qh5p5X7j7omyw1U85w'&gt;Is your website accessible by the disabled? The law says it should be&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;Shoosmiths legal updates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; now is a good time for website owners to remind themselves of their duties and prepare for the new Act. Under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.shoosmiths.co.uk/news/2982.asp&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.shoosmiths.co.uk/news/2982.asp%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=5F0O17HU_3Q&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHu_mjmbzopGKudGVcNWK8RPziieQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://samedifference1.com/2010/04/22/house-of-lords-disability-discrimination-case-makes-history/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=5F0O17HU_3Q&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEin-7bo0cje4A-etWymVA-Ni42gg'&gt;House of Lords &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; Case Makes History « Same &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By samedifference1 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Victimisation. In October 2001 she began proceedings under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; alleging discrimination on grounds of her employer's failure to make reasonable adjustments for her disability. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://samedifference1.com/' href='http://samedifference1.com/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Same Difference - http://samedifference1.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.docstoc.com/docs/35385389/The-Disability-Equality-Duty-rec&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=iL3d8zPN4cE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGQe2-R-3Yb94ktovolE88ZwZ-QYQ'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; rec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; – recent legal cases Catherine Casserley &lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;										&lt;strong&gt;equality duty&lt;/strong&gt;• s.49A When carrying out their functions public authorities &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.docstoc.com/docs/35385389/The-Disability-Equality-Duty-rec' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.docstoc.com/docs/35385389/The-Disability-Equality-Duty-rec&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=iL3d8zPN4cE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGQe2-R-3Yb94ktovolE88ZwZ-QYQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.docstoc.com/docs/.../The-Disability-Equality-Duty-rec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.thomsons.com/page/13080/uk-and-europe/reward-news-knowledge/employee-rewards-and-benefits-news/articles/landmark-judgement-for-disabled-employees%3FfromSearch%3Dtrue&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=_XZs96nH1F4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHyhf_enXSopY6EFBJJ3kOtubu__w'&gt;Landmark judgement for disabled employees&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;Thomson's Online Benefits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A House of Lord's ruling that revised the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; led to a discrimination settlement worth £125000. The law previously stated that &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.thomsons.com/page/13080/uk-and-europe/reward-news-knowledge/employee-rewards-and-benefits-news/articles/landmark-judgement-for-disabled-employees%3FfromSearch%3Dtrue&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.thomsons.com/page/13080/uk-and-europe/reward-news-knowledge/employee-rewards-and-benefits-news/articles/landmark-judgement-for-disabled-employees%253FfromSearch%253Dtrue%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=_XZs96nH1F4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE46Ihs7GjstOx_cXWAU5s2xmhYTg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://extrastaff.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/the-equality-act-2010/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=_XZs96nH1F4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHEdORD1iNaabwSwRKFL-ZYaiLwTw'&gt;The Equality &lt;strong&gt;Act&lt;/strong&gt; 2010 « extrastaff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By extrastaff &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The Equality Act 2010 will replace the Equal Pay Act 1970, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, the Race Relations Act 1976, the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995, much of the Equality Act 2006, the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://extrastaff.wordpress.com/' href='http://extrastaff.wordpress.com/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;extrastaff - http://extrastaff.wordpress.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.icare.to/article.php%3Fid%3D26055%26lang%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=_XZs96nH1F4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG896ydNdNTIjd_PPS8t74N9RyQPQ'&gt;I CARE - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;In October 2001 she began proceedings under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; alleging discrimination on grounds of her employer's failure to make reasonable adjustments for her disability. In May 2002, after 33 years service, &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.icare.to/' href='http://www.icare.to/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;I CARE News English - http://www.icare.to/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.rajapacktoday.co.uk/2010/04/packaging-company-at-forefront-of-disability-case/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=_XZs96nH1F4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNESyspZRFojSmUKi1fE2dv7MvIQMQ'&gt;Packaging company at forefront of &lt;strong&gt;disability&lt;/strong&gt; case :: Rajapack Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By jimduncan &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Eventually the House of Lords upheld previous rulings and changed the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; for people with other medical conditions such as diabetes and epilepsy who control their condition by protecting them if symptoms recur &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.rajapacktoday.co.uk/' href='http://www.rajapacktoday.co.uk/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Rajapack Today - http://www.rajapacktoday.co.uk/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.u.tv/News/Co-Down-woman-makes-legal-history/ab90914d-0567-4066-8e13-bc7f78c68bd1&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=_XZs96nH1F4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH3zg6WE69D23ktqu68DBIKDJLsJg'&gt;UTV News - Co Down woman makes legal history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The company has now settled the case with Ms Boyle, without admission of liability, after the Lords upheld a Court of Appeal decision that under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;, more people with medical conditions that are controlled, &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.u.tv/' href='http://www.u.tv/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;UTV RSS NEWS FEED - http://www.u.tv/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://sain.sunsite.utk.edu/cgi-bin/textonly/0124/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8635900.stm&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=_XZs96nH1F4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHp0M2qXsAf7Ei8J_x94mazxBvj1Q'&gt;Related BBC sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;A woman whose case under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; was the subject of a House of Lords ruling, has agreed a settlement with her former employer.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://sain.sunsite.utk.edu/cgi-bin/textonly/0124/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8635900.stm' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://sain.sunsite.utk.edu/cgi-bin/textonly/0124/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8635900.stm&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=_XZs96nH1F4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHp0M2qXsAf7Ei8J_x94mazxBvj1Q'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;sain.sunsite.utk.edu/cgi-bin/textonly/...co.../8635900.stm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;					&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-4529794317240066988?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/4529794317240066988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=4529794317240066988' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/4529794317240066988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/4529794317240066988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/23042010.html' title='23/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-7770303929767619805</id><published>2010-04-23T14:08:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T14:08:15.574+01:00</updated><title type='text'>22/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;DDA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.reallysimpleseo.com/web-design/website-design-strategy&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=R_nFQK50JCA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFV-dEc-uhj9_NmMLTk89jZEFyXIg'&gt;Web Design Strategy - How to make the right choices | Really &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By David &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Accessibility / &lt;strong&gt;DDA&lt;/strong&gt;: Full &lt;strong&gt;DDA&lt;/strong&gt; compliance is a difficult thing (read time and cost intensive) to achieve. You need to consider your likely audience and build according to their likely requirements. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.reallysimpleseo.com/' href='http://www.reallysimpleseo.com/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Really Simple SEO, Popular UK Based Blog - http://www.reallysimpleseo.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.north-herts.gov.uk/index/community_and_living/equalities_and_diversity/disability_equality/disability_equality_duty.htm&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=J5Sxg0TIKf4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGAtJDlOiOQU2TZzUYf7N_nB1QEIA'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The former Disability Rights Commission published guidance on the &lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;										&lt;strong&gt;Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; and involving disabled people. It can be found at: &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.north-herts.gov.uk/index/community_and_living/equalities_and_diversity/disability_equality/disability_equality_duty.htm' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.north-herts.gov.uk/index/community_and_living/equalities_and_diversity/disability_equality/disability_equality_duty.htm&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=J5Sxg0TIKf4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGAtJDlOiOQU2TZzUYf7N_nB1QEIA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.north-herts.gov.uk/.../disability_equality_duty.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.rnid.org.uk/Content.aspx%3Fid%3D101703%26ciid%3D351004&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=J5Sxg0TIKf4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFm3VpEjdX8ysmhntgnURy6B8kBmw'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; (DED) – a guide for public authorities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; (DED or 'the Duty') aims to promote equality for, &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; your general duty to promote disability equality. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.rnid.org.uk/Content.aspx?id=101703&amp;amp;ciid=351004' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.rnid.org.uk/Content.aspx%3Fid%3D101703%26ciid%3D351004&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=J5Sxg0TIKf4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFm3VpEjdX8ysmhntgnURy6B8kBmw'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.rnid.org.uk/Content.aspx?id=101703&amp;amp;amp;ciid=351004&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-7770303929767619805?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/7770303929767619805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=7770303929767619805' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/7770303929767619805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/7770303929767619805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/22042010.html' title='22/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-4521902558539491401</id><published>2010-04-22T11:25:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-22T11:25:18.417+01:00</updated><title type='text'>21/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.skill.org.uk/youth/page.aspx%3Fc%3D310%26p%3D431&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Fyn_YTE74O8&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG01qhRUHSW31v6ditK69VmQyu1iA'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; (DDA) is a law. It says that schools, colleges , universities and employers must not discriminate against disabled people. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.skill.org.uk/youth/page.aspx?c=310&amp;amp;p=431' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.skill.org.uk/youth/page.aspx%3Fc%3D310%26p%3D431&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Fyn_YTE74O8&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG01qhRUHSW31v6ditK69VmQyu1iA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.skill.org.uk/youth/page.aspx?c=310&amp;amp;amp;p=431&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-4521902558539491401?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/4521902558539491401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=4521902558539491401' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/4521902558539491401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/4521902558539491401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/21042010.html' title='21/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-291531444725528979</id><published>2010-04-22T11:24:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-22T11:24:12.497+01:00</updated><title type='text'>20/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.communitynewswire.press.net/article.jsp%3Fid%3D6699123&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=AyDtJvRxH2Y&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHKpBcAz_Tjtfkn7HN_BL7s-2aNmw'&gt;INACCESSIBLE POLLING STATIONS DISENFRANCHISE DISABLED VOTERS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;Community Newswire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The charity pointed to the The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; 2005 (part of the Disability Discrimination Act, soon to be replaced by the Equality Act), &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/HR/Diversity/page15108.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=AyDtJvRxH2Y&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFwKoGyYq-yowpUWSEV5YCZ4ImJNg'&gt;Diversity schemes and action plans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Cranfield University Disability Equality Scheme and Action Plan for Staff and Students. The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; came into force in 2006 to help Public &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/HR/Diversity/page15108.html' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/HR/Diversity/page15108.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=AyDtJvRxH2Y&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFwKoGyYq-yowpUWSEV5YCZ4ImJNg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.cranfield.ac.uk/HR/Diversity/page15108.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp%3Fid%3D110104&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Eznm7u7i2rI&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH_raJ2JS1ZCga3dVOD0LisEe0EnA'&gt;Crescent Arts Centre Restoration Complete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;4ni.co.uk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; on the ground floor of the refurbished building, the installation of a lift and other work to comply with &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; requirements. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp%3Fid%3D110104&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp%253Fid%253D110104%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Eznm7u7i2rI&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG-k9cD5RE0DaoaNeTjSWHe7fAe0A'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/86731%3FPagingData%3DPo_0~Ps_10~Psd_Asc&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Eznm7u7i2rI&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEUlKQDzii7bknw41SnlObMeOgKsg'&gt;Scots pub &lt;strong&gt;disability&lt;/strong&gt; access law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;Morning Advertiser&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Applications must include a "statement of compliance" with the 2005 &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;, detailing where changes have been made to remove barriers &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/86731%3FPagingData%3DPo_0~Ps_10~Psd_Asc&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/86731%253FPagingData%253DPo_0~Ps_10~Psd_Asc%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Eznm7u7i2rI&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEtfNcLc40S4gWuB0ezGG797rOzVA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://blog.martinkaye.co.uk/2010/04/fit-or-sick-you-can-make-difference.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Eznm7u7i2rI&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF7x8I5I2RLcifvxifYziNacTAKtg'&gt;Martin Kaye Solicitors – Telford - Shropshire – Newsletter: Fit or &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By Rachel Jones &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Tina said the company's obligations to make reasonable adjustments to staff working conditions under the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 would not change. Posted by Rachel Jones at 14:48. Labels: News · Older Post Home. News Archives &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://blog.martinkaye.co.uk/' href='http://blog.martinkaye.co.uk/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Martin Kaye Solicitors – Telford... - http://blog.martinkaye.co.uk/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.oppapers.com/subjects/discrimination-against-disabled-page1.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Eznm7u7i2rI&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHyvCtZVx1qSkY_biAnYCEMlQhgrg'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; Against Disabled Free Essays 1 - 20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 was introduced to outlaw discrimination against disabled employees in the UK and covers prospective, &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.oppapers.com/subjects/discrimination-against-disabled-page1.html' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.oppapers.com/subjects/discrimination-against-disabled-page1.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Eznm7u7i2rI&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHyvCtZVx1qSkY_biAnYCEMlQhgrg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.oppapers.com/.../discrimination-against-disabled-page1...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail%3FitemId%3D1084072938%26type%3DRESOURCES&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Eznm7u7i2rI&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFnM04dfRJuo0BZMiKtxSCjsi946g'&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; - what the law says | Business Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;An overview on the laws around employing disabled people.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1084072938&amp;amp;type=RESOURCES' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail%3FitemId%3D1084072938%26type%3DRESOURCES&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=Eznm7u7i2rI&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFnM04dfRJuo0BZMiKtxSCjsi946g'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId...type...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;					&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-291531444725528979?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/291531444725528979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=291531444725528979' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/291531444725528979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/291531444725528979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/20042010.html' title='20/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-5887987238459746965</id><published>2010-04-20T12:17:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-20T12:17:49.474+01:00</updated><title type='text'>19/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS News Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591242,00.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=2OmG-5MsHO0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGdqVmUMNLq2rrj7JoK8tfAqbL94A'&gt;Blind Musician Denied Entry to Club Due to 'Dangerous' Cane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;FOXNews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; said Clay could make a complaint to the Human Rights Commission under the Equality &lt;strong&gt;Act&lt;/strong&gt;, adding, "&lt;strong&gt;Discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; on the grounds of &lt;strong&gt;disability&lt;/strong&gt; is illegal. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591242,00.html&amp;amp;hl=en' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591242,00.html%26hl%3Den&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=2OmG-5MsHO0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE9DgZzGy60dfriffHG8zHWSwzTWA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;See all stories on this topic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.zenasylum.com/2010/04/disability-discrimination-department-of.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=2OmG-5MsHO0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNExV7QdPG-Hj5TfXwzfPh5nQR7SnA'&gt;Zen Asylum: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination&lt;/strong&gt;: Department of Health and &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By admin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;has had with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over the DoH's handling of my Patient Choice related &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination&lt;/strong&gt; complaint and information requests. Section 40(1) of the FOI &lt;strong&gt;Act&lt;/strong&gt; states that 'any information to &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.zenasylum.com/' href='http://www.zenasylum.com/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Zen Asylum - http://www.zenasylum.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/10/21&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=2OmG-5MsHO0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFnxG4acmaTAiHz_07O8Fg2vh5W5Q'&gt;Abstract | Prevalence of childhood &lt;strong&gt;disability&lt;/strong&gt; and the &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;This paper reports prevalence rates for childhood disability in the United &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; they met the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; (DDA) definition (1995 and 2005). &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/10/21' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/10/21&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=2OmG-5MsHO0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFnxG4acmaTAiHz_07O8Fg2vh5W5Q'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/10/21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://wokingham.gov.uk/environment/planning/ldf/core-strategy/corestrategyconsultation/core-strategy-information/%3Fassetesctl374501%3D6416&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=o4UTxbqzsi4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGaajXbvBqkCa-dMXni1N-XV1q6Zw'&gt;Core Strategy Submission Draft Initial Impact Assessment Report &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;that the &lt;strong&gt;disability equality duty&lt;/strong&gt; will not be met if it has an impact on particular persons or groups. 5.01 The Core Strategy contains 22 policies. &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://wokingham.gov.uk/environment/planning/ldf/core-strategy/corestrategyconsultation/core-strategy-information/?assetesctl374501=6416' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://wokingham.gov.uk/environment/planning/ldf/core-strategy/corestrategyconsultation/core-strategy-information/%3Fassetesctl374501%3D6416&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=o4UTxbqzsi4&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGaajXbvBqkCa-dMXni1N-XV1q6Zw'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;wokingham.gov.uk/.../ldf/core.../core-strategy-information/?...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-5887987238459746965?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/5887987238459746965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=5887987238459746965' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/5887987238459746965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/5887987238459746965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/19042010.html' title='19/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-8331240300855321409</id><published>2010-04-20T12:17:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-20T12:17:02.395+01:00</updated><title type='text'>18/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.ehow.com/disability-discrimination-act/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=dzBpTKohDM0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGl4NCXWQQLmL0xyU7JgMi2tfsjvQ'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; - eHow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Learn about &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; on eHow.com. Find info and videos including: About &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;, About Disability Discrimination &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.ehow.com/disability-discrimination-act/' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.ehow.com/disability-discrimination-act/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=dzBpTKohDM0&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGl4NCXWQQLmL0xyU7JgMi2tfsjvQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.ehow.com/disability-discrimination-act/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-8331240300855321409?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/8331240300855321409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=8331240300855321409' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/8331240300855321409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/8331240300855321409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/18042010.html' title='18/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-2841281812311635893</id><published>2010-04-18T15:56:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T15:56:40.506+01:00</updated><title type='text'>17/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://fishing.blogr.com/stories/2010-04-17-Disability-rights-movement/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=jIcVSLVrDkg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFJscXQzTAKylIz0uVuzyJnx4y5-w'&gt;fishing.blogr.com - stories - 2010-04-17-&lt;strong&gt;Disability&lt;/strong&gt;-rights-movement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By fishing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In the UK, following extensive activism by disabled people over several decades, the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 (DDA 1995) was passed. This makes it unlawful to discriminate against people with disabilities in relation to &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://fishing.blogr.com/' href='http://fishing.blogr.com/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;fishing.blogr.com - Blog (RSS 2.0) - http://fishing.blogr.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20100411050628AAz4jJR&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=jIcVSLVrDkg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGUT-Mx4pFGu1cIcyEn9p96FUvn5g'&gt;How does the &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination act&lt;/strong&gt; stop discrimination &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;"How does the &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination act&lt;/strong&gt; stop discrimination from taking place?" - Find the answer to this question and millions more on Yahoo!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100411050628AAz4jJR' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20100411050628AAz4jJR&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=jIcVSLVrDkg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGUT-Mx4pFGu1cIcyEn9p96FUvn5g'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.qcda.gov.uk/curriculum/4328.aspx&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=jIcVSLVrDkg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNENfOWcpIFAwMTaWGwE76FGL-Xfwg'&gt;Exams centres and the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 2005 - QCDA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;The following guidance is designed to help exams office staff understand and meet the requirements of the &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 (DDA)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.qcda.gov.uk/curriculum/4328.aspx' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.qcda.gov.uk/curriculum/4328.aspx&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=jIcVSLVrDkg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNENfOWcpIFAwMTaWGwE76FGL-Xfwg'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.qcda.gov.uk/curriculum/4328.aspx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-2841281812311635893?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/2841281812311635893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=2841281812311635893' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/2841281812311635893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/2841281812311635893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/17042010.html' title='17/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628393212119580338.post-2495536941702124713</id><published>2010-04-17T13:49:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T13:49:35.678+01:00</updated><title type='text'>16/04/2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=''&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20100415085010AA6fdrY&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=v8bsHut7yEE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH-0NTwLMmkW3NoJ6vx6gbCDg66ww'&gt;Why was there a new &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination act&lt;/strong&gt; made? - Yahoo &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Why was there a new &lt;strong&gt;disability discrimination act&lt;/strong&gt; made?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100415085010AA6fdrY' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20100415085010AA6fdrY&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=v8bsHut7yEE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH-0NTwLMmkW3NoJ6vx6gbCDg66ww'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.docstoc.com/docs/34302069/DISABILITY-DISCRIMINATION-ACT-TRAINING&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=v8bsHut7yEE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNETF8OnLrPliHB2uia9VxUvSp8cTQ'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT&lt;/strong&gt; TRAINING&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt; 1995 (Part IV) - as amended by the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 (SENDA) Presented by Neil Farmer, &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.docstoc.com/docs/34302069/DISABILITY-DISCRIMINATION-ACT-TRAINING' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.docstoc.com/docs/34302069/DISABILITY-DISCRIMINATION-ACT-TRAINING&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=v8bsHut7yEE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNETF8OnLrPliHB2uia9VxUvSp8cTQ'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.docstoc.com/.../DISABILITY-DISCRIMINATION-ACT-...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.ispub.com/journal/the_internet_journal_of_health/volume_11_number_1_10/article/what-do-you-expect-she-is-mentally-retarded-on-meeting-the-health-challenges-of-individuals-with-intellectual-disability.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=v8bsHut7yEE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEDiS6bUfzEfZncHnXoxFATMT4d5A'&gt;ISPUB - "What do you expect? She is mentally retarded!": On &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Britain's &lt;strong&gt;Disability Discrimination Act&lt;/strong&gt;29 requires organizations to make " reasonable adjustments" to ensure that people with disability are not excluded &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.ispub.com/journal/the_internet_journal_of_health/volume_11_number_1_10/article/what-do-you-expect-she-is-mentally-retarded-on-meeting-the-health-challenges-of-individuals-with-intellectual-disability.html' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.ispub.com/journal/the_internet_journal_of_health/volume_11_number_1_10/article/what-do-you-expect-she-is-mentally-retarded-on-meeting-the-health-challenges-of-individuals-with-intellectual-disability.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=v8bsHut7yEE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEDiS6bUfzEfZncHnXoxFATMT4d5A'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.ispub.com/.../what-do-you-expect-she-is-mentally-retard...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Blogs Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://lancashirecare.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/mind-mental-health-and-employment-a-mind-to-work/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=n37DU6X1jDY&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEqMoKVbXjsg-A4g2ZI6sRyPAF8hw'&gt;MIND – Mental Health and Employment – A MIND to Work « Lancashire &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:#666666'&gt;By sjennings29 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The booklet then looks at the Disability Discrimination Act (1995), reasonable adjustments employers are obliged to make for disabled persons, disclosure of mental health status to employers, and &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt; (2006). &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://lancashirecare.wordpress.com/' href='http://lancashirecare.wordpress.com/'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;Lancashire Care Library and Informati... - http://lancashirecare.wordpress.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;									&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:Arial'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13pt'&gt;DCS Web Alert for: &lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border='0' style='border-collapse:collapse'&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col style='width:600px'/&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody valign='top'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style='padding-bottom: 16px' vAlign='middle'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.docstoc.com/docs/34302081/Disability-Equality-Scheme-Outline&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=n37DU6X1jDY&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGRZ1nXyGoPaakYMAra1wvfScSDgA'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disability Equality&lt;/strong&gt; Scheme Outline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10pt'&gt;Queen Mary, University of LondonDisability &lt;strong&gt;Equality&lt;/strong&gt; Scheme2010 – 2013February 2010Main reportN/b: the Scheme has been approved by the Chair of the Equal &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a title='http://www.docstoc.com/docs/34302081/Disability-Equality-Scheme-Outline' href='http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.docstoc.com/docs/34302081/Disability-Equality-Scheme-Outline&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=7:2:0&amp;amp;cd=n37DU6X1jDY&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGRZ1nXyGoPaakYMAra1wvfScSDgA'&gt;&lt;span style='color:green'&gt;www.docstoc.com/docs/.../Disability-Equality-Scheme-Outline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8628393212119580338-2495536941702124713?l=www.dcs-group.org%2Fdcsblog.htm' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/2495536941702124713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8628393212119580338&amp;postID=2495536941702124713' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/2495536941702124713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8628393212119580338/posts/default/2495536941702124713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dcs-group.org/2010/04/16042010.html' title='16/04/2010'/><author><name>Andy Robinson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16034918967885377485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05168165940675800300'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>