“Public policy has been slow to treat disability as a matter of equality, human rights and citizenship”
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"Public policy has been slow to treat disability as a matter of equality, human rights and citizenship" What impact will the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and the Equality Act 2006 have on public policy in relation to disability? "Public policy has been slow to treat disability as a matter of equality, human rights and citizenship" What impact will the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and the Equality Act 2006 have on public policy in relation to disability? The Equality Act1 and the Disability Discriminations Act2, compliment each other in their aims, of eradicating discrimination, from the public domain. The objectives of the Equality Act are wider than those of the Disability Discrimination Act, in that they deal with discrimination on many more different levels than, discrimination against those with a physical or mental impairment3, which is exclusively dealt with by the DDA. However what they both have in common is the promotion of equal opportunity...


