Disability Discrimination In Health And Social Care

Disability Discrimination Act:
The disability discrimination act promotes equality for all people involved; it ensures that nobody whom has a disability can be treated unfairly because of their disability and the things they’re unable to do. The disability discrimination act applied to housing, training, transport, goods, facilities and service. They apply to these things because they ensure that nobody can be discriminated against or treated differently because of their disability in relation to these things. For example; a person not being allowed to buy a house on the basis of their disability, so the housing company will not sell them the house because they aren’t able bodied and the house has stairs. That’s discrimination against someone because of their disability and that’s where the DDA would come into act.
The DDA covers mental illness as well as physical conditions and because of this it covers a wide range of people who may need to use the act and who are eligible to use the act.
The legislation requires public bodies to promote equality of opportunity for people with disabilities. It also allows the government to set minimum standards so that people with disabilities can use public transport easily. These rights are put in place to ensure that no discrimination or inequality is given to anyone who doesn’t deserve it and because of this these rights are put in place to make sure that people are being treated equally at all