Riverside - Our Duty

Disability Equality Duty

The Disability Equality Duty, implemented as a result of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, seeks to ensure that housing providers and other statutory bodies such as government departments and local authorities adopt effective practice in supporting disabled people to lead more inclusive lives.

The Disability Equality Duty is a new way of helping the public sector to make real positive change to the lives of disabled users and employees, ensuring that they are treated fairly and equally. The Duty covers some 45,000 public bodies across Great Britain and came into force in December 2006.

The Disability Equality Scheme (DES), will have due regard to:

Promoting equality of opportunity between disabled people and other people;

Eliminating discrimination that is unlawful under the Disability Discrimination Act;

Eliminating harassment of disabled people that is related to their disability;

Promoting positive attitudes towards disabled people;

Encouraging participation by disabled people in public life;

Taking steps to meet disabled people’s needs, even if this requires more favourable treatment.

Click here to view the Riverside Disability Equality Scheme

Gender Equality Duty

The Gender Equality Duty came in to effect in April 2007, requiring public authorities to promote gender equality and eliminate sex discrimination.

The Riverside Gender Equality scheme sets out what we will do over the next three years to help make sure our tenants, residents and staff are treated equally and receive a fair level of service regardless of their sex or sexual orientation.

The scheme sets out our priorities for achieving gender equality. It is supported by an action plan outlining how we will measure and report our performance, and how we will assess the gender equality of all our policies.

Click here to view the Riverside Gender Equality Scheme