Watford Borough Council

The Disability Discrimination Act amended in 2005 gives us, your local council, 'general' and 'specific' duties to promote disability equality. The new general duty means that we must, in carrying out our functions, have due regard to:

• promoting equality of opportunity between disabled people and other people;
• eliminating discrimination which is unlawful under the Act;
• eliminating harassment of disabled people that is related to their disabilities;
• encouraging positive attitudes towards disabled people;
• taking steps to take account of disabled people's disabilities even where this involves treating disabled people more favourably than other people

One of the most important aspects in the scheme's development is to involve disabled people. If you would like to read the scheme please click on the links in the 'Related pages' section.