Disability Equality Scheme

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Please use the link below to download Renfrewshire Council’s first Disability Equality Scheme. The scheme has been developed with the involvement of disabled people to meet the general duty on the Council to:

1. promote equality of opportunity between disabled people and other people.
2. eliminate discrimination that is unlawful under the Act.
3. eliminate harassment of disabled people that is related to their disability.
4. promote positive attitudes towards disabled people .
5. encourage participation by disabled people in public life.
6. to take account of disabled peoples' disabilities, even where that involves treating disabled people more favourably than other people.

Disability Equality Scheme (pdf - 167Kb)

We have identified six 'disability outcomes' to monitor the Disability Equality Scheme's impact. The outcomes are:

• increase disabled peoples' access to Council services
• increase access to information about our services for disabled people
• reduce the gap in the level of satisfaction with services between disabled and non disabled service users
• increase the level of disabled people in employment with the Council and other employers
• reduce the incidence of harassment on the grounds of disability for our staff and service users
• increase the number of disabled people participating in public life

Progress made with the Scheme will be reported annually. For further information please contact Andrew Noble, Chief Executive’s department on 0141 840 3207 or email chiefexec@renfrewshire.gov.uk.