HomeThe Disability Discrimination Act
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 aims to end the discrimination that many disabled people face. The act provides a new definition of disability and provides protection to disabled people and people with long term health impairments in respect of employment, and access to goods, services and facilities.
This Act has been significantly extended, including by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005. It now gives disabled people rights in the areas of employment; education; access to goods, facilities and services, including larger private clubs and land-based transport services; buying or renting land or property, including making it easier for disabled people to rent property and for tenants to make disability-related adaptations and the functions of public bodies.
The Act requires public bodies to promote equality of opportunity and to undertake a number of specific duties including the development and publication of a Disability Equality Scheme setting out how the public body will address the needs of disabled people.
It also allows the government to set minimum standards so that disabled people can use public transport easily.
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