Government Accepts Changes to Disability Discrimination Bill

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• Daniel Barnett

Andrew Smith, the works and pensions secretary, has announced that the Government will be accepting a number of recommended changes to the draft Disability Discrimination Bill which is expected to come into force in 2006.

The majority of the changes (and, indeed, the Bill itself) are concerned with the extension of disability discrimination protection outside the employment field, for example in areas such as transport and housing.

The areas which will affect employment practitioners ... (79 more words)

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