Grappling with the challenges of overcoming discrimination faced by disabled children and adults is a mammoth task for the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). Public sector bodies touch every area of our lives, and have the power to make genuine changes to disabled people's life experience. Because of this, the DRC has helped establish the new disability equality duty (DED), which places a responsibility on publicly-funded bodies to actively promote disability equality. The new duty affects around 45,000 bodies, including local authorities. They must have disability-equality schemes in place by December, and many have already made a start. Social services departments - and directors - need to make sure they get in on the act.
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