Disability Equality

Through our Disability Equality scheme, we have stated that we aim to:

• Understand the needs and aspirations of disabled people in the communities in which we work
   
• Shape our services to meet those needs and aspirations
   
• Work with partners to promote community cohesion and positive messages on disability issues
   
• Work to eliminate the unlawful discrimination, harassment and disadvantage of disabled people
   
• Work towards ensuring our staffing establishment and Board membership includes appropriate
  representation of disabled people
   
• Involve and consult customers and representative groups shaping future strategy, action plans and
  monitoring outcomes
   
• Comply with statutory requirements and seek to follow good practice
   
• Ensure that disability equality considerations are embedded into all parts of our business activities.

But we are eager that these are not just words so, as well as setting our strategy and specific actions and targets to achieve the above we are establishing customer groups to scrutinise whether we are delivering what we say we