Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister. The Disability Unit in the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister is responsible for developing anti-discrimination policy on disability.
Our work involves preparing policy papers, briefing Ministers and officials and preparing legislation. Latest News A strategy to improve the lives of people with disabilities - 2012 to 2015 The Executive has written a strategy to improve the lives of disabled people. Junior Ministers Jennifer McCann and Jonathan Bell launched the Strategy on Thursday 28 February 2013. For further information please click on the link below. A strategy to improve the lives of people with disabilities - 2012 to 2015 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) came into force on 8 July 2009.
Along with other devolved Administrations, the Executive was invited to contribute to the UK Government’s Report. Definition of disability under the Equality Act 2010. You’re disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities.
What ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ mean ‘substantial’ is more than minor or trivial, eg it takes much longer than it usually would to complete a daily task like getting dressed ‘long-term’ means 12 months or more, eg a breathing condition that develops as a result of a lung infection There are special rules about recurring or fluctuating conditions, eg arthritis. Progressive conditions A progressive condition is one that gets worse over time.
However, you automatically meet the disability definition under the Equality Act 2010 from the day you’re diagnosed with HIV infection, cancer or multiple sclerosis. What isn’t counted as a disability There’s guidance on conditions that aren’t covered by the disability definition, eg addiction to non–prescribed drugs or alcohol. Odi.dwp.gov.uk/docs/wor/new/ea-guide.pdf. Disability definitions: Office for Disability Issues - Inclusive communications. The descriptor ‘disabled people' has various definitions Different definitions of ‘disabled’ apply to special educational needs assessment, eligibility for disability living allowance and eligibility for incapacity benefit.
There are also different ways of looking at disability itself. The Office for Disability Issues (ODI) models of disability web page gives more detail. The Disability Discrimination Act definition The most commonly used definition of the term ‘disabled person’ is that used to define people considered disabled for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act: “people who have, or had in the past, a wide range of impairments and long-term health conditions”. This includes people who have, or had in the past, a wide range of impairments and long-term health conditions.
Around 50 per cent of people defined as disabled by the DDA would not describe themselves as disabled. Since 1 October 2010, most provisions of the Equality Act 2010 came into forceto replace the DDA. Definition of 'disability' Find out about the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and its definition of a person with disabilities.
You can also learn about what help and guidance is available. The definition of a person with disabilities The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) defines a person with disabilities as someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on the ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. For the purposes of the Act: substantial means that the effect on the disability is neither minor nor trivial - it does not have to be a severe effectlong-term means that the effect of the impairment has lasted or is likely to last for at least 12 months and the effect must be a detrimental one - a person with a life expectancy of less than twelve months is covered if the effect is likely to last for the whole of that timenormal day-to-day activities include everyday things like eating, washing, walking and going shopping Special provisions.