Disability Equality Scheme 2006-2009
Table of contents
- Foreword
- 1 Setting the Scene
- 2 The Department's Role
- 3 Working in Partnership
- Working across Government
- 4 Principles of our approach
- Involving disabled people
- Contributing to the Scheme
- 5 Gathering and use of information
- 6 Assessing the impact of policies and activities
- 7 Where are we now?
- 8 Buses and Coaches
- Affordability
- 9 Taxis & private hire vehicles
- 10 Railways
- Railways for All
- Rail Infrastructure
- Code of Practice on Train and Station Services for Disabled Passengers
- New Trains
- Disabled People's Protection Policies
- Disabled Persons Railcard
- Other Initiatives from Train Operators
- Secure Stations Scheme
- 11 Personal mobility
- Blue Badge Scheme
- Ensuring Departmental guidance is relevant to the needs of disabled people
- Class 2 and 3 Buggies and Scooters
- Exemption from Vehicle Excise Duty (Road Tax)
- Mobility Centres
- Mobility Choice
- Smartcards
- Cycling
- Walking
- 12 Aviation
- 13 Shipping
- Ship safety
- 31 Design of Large Passenger Ships and Passenger Infrastructure: Guidance on Meeting the Needs of Disabled People, DPTAC, 2000. Available from www.dptac.gov.uk/pubs/guideship/index.htm.
- 14 Road network
- Emergency Roadside Telephones
- Helping learner drivers
- Removing barriers
- 15 Information
- Transport Direct
- Door-to-door web site
- Community Transport Association Advice Line (CTA)
- Interactive information points
- The Department's Web Site
- Direct.gov.uk
- 16 Accessibility planning and social exclusion
- 17 Disability equality and our corporate services
- Procurement policy
- Marketing
- 18 Departmental disability action plan
- 19 Managing our people
- Involvement
- Monitoring, information gathering - evaluation and action planning
- Evaluation and development of the action plan
- Promoting positive attitudes - awareness raising
- Supporting the development of disabled colleagues
- Meeting disabled employee's needs
- Dealing with harassment and inappropriate behaviour
- DfT Disability Targets
- Estate compliance
- 20 Publishing and review
- Publishing
- Review
- 21 Reporting
- Annual reports
- Secretary of State's Report
- Annex A: Action Plans Central Department (link to PDF tables for Annex A and B)
- Annex B: Action Plans Executive Agencies (link to PDF tables for Annex A and B)
- Annex C: Description of the Legal Duties
- General Duty
- Specific Duty
- Annex D: Involving Disabled People - Workshops
- Summary or results of the discussion groups
- Annex E: Functions and policies and their relevance to disability equality
- Central Department for Transport
- Road Transport, Aviation and Shipping Group
- Executive Agencies
- Annex F: Useful Websites
- Acknowledgements
