D1: Evaluate the Success of a Recent Initiative to Promote Anti-Discriminatory Practice
Evaluate the Success of a Recent Initiative to Promote Anti-Discriminatory Practice
The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) made it unlawful to discriminate against those with disabilities in terms of employment and provisions of goods, services and facilities.
It is obvious that the most successful area that this act has worked in has been employment as the percentage of disabled people in work rose to 47.8% in 2012, which may not seem great when compared to 75.9% of non-disabled people but since the act has been in place, the difference between the two percentages decreased by around 10%(1). Looking at the percentage difference it could be argued that maybe less disabled people are in jobs because certain jobs require certain physiological aspects, for example, an electrician would have to have no visual impairment such as blindness or colour-blindness as they would pose a threat to themselves and others due to the nature of the work.
Education has also seen notable improvements when the act came into fruition as the percentage of those with special educational needs achieving 5 or more A*-C grades rose by a total of 56% between 2005 and 2011(2). Whilst the grades of those with disabilities have improved, it appears that the experience in education hasn’t had a great effect due to the act as 26% of disabled people in education reported having a negative experience largely due to the attitudes of others and lack of correct facilities(3). The poor attitudes and lack of facilities may come from the fact that 83% of disabled students are in mainstream education (4) which cannot necessarily cater for their needs to the same standard of a special needs school.
The main area that still needs to be further reviewed is the provision of goods, services and facilities because accessibility in terms of public services could be improved. One example of how it needs improvement would be train stations as not all of them can be accessed by wheelchair users, Grove Park
The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) made it unlawful to discriminate against those with disabilities in terms of employment and provisions of goods, services and facilities.
It is obvious that the most successful area that this act has worked in has been employment as the percentage of disabled people in work rose to 47.8% in 2012, which may not seem great when compared to 75.9% of non-disabled people but since the act has been in place, the difference between the two percentages decreased by around 10%(1). Looking at the percentage difference it could be argued that maybe less disabled people are in jobs because certain jobs require certain physiological aspects, for example, an electrician would have to have no visual impairment such as blindness or colour-blindness as they would pose a threat to themselves and others due to the nature of the work.
Education has also seen notable improvements when the act came into fruition as the percentage of those with special educational needs achieving 5 or more A*-C grades rose by a total of 56% between 2005 and 2011(2). Whilst the grades of those with disabilities have improved, it appears that the experience in education hasn’t had a great effect due to the act as 26% of disabled people in education reported having a negative experience largely due to the attitudes of others and lack of correct facilities(3). The poor attitudes and lack of facilities may come from the fact that 83% of disabled students are in mainstream education (4) which cannot necessarily cater for their needs to the same standard of a special needs school.
The main area that still needs to be further reviewed is the provision of goods, services and facilities because accessibility in terms of public services could be improved. One example of how it needs improvement would be train stations as not all of them can be accessed by wheelchair users, Grove Park