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Disability Equality Scheme for the Independent Review
Service
The Independent
Review Service (IRS) provides the independent grievance process, by means of a
review, for customers who are dissatisfied with Jobcentre Plus' decisions on
their applications to the discretionary Social Fund.
Section 49A of
the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, inserted into the Act by the Disability
Discrimination Act 2005, imposes a duty upon the IRS in carrying out its
functions to have due regard to:
(a) the need to
eliminate discrimination that is unlawful under this Act;
(b) the need to eliminate harassment of disabled persons
that is related to their disabilities;
(c) the need to promote equality of opportunity between disabled
persons and other persons;
(d) the
need to take steps to take account of disabled persons' disabilities, even
where that involves treating disabled persons more favourably than other
persons;
(e) the need to promote
positive attitudes towards disabled persons; and
(f) the need to encourage participation by disabled
persons in public life.
The Disability Equality Scheme sets out how the IRS plans to meet its
duty to promote disability equality. The Scheme includes details of measures
already in place, how the IRS will reinforce its commitment to promote
equality, a three-year Action Plan and further details of what the law means by
disability. There is also a separate report from our recent Disability Equality
Customer Survey.
The Disability Equality Scheme, and the results of the
survey can be downloaded from the table below in PDF format. Or, alternatively
click on the following links to be taken to plain HTML versions of these
documents:
IRS Disability Equality Scheme
IRS Disability Survey
Results
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IRS Disability Equality Scheme.pdf
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