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Disability Confident Scheme

Meeting: 13/02/2019 - Weekly Bulletin (Item 10.)

Disability Confident Scheme

Cabinet:

 

(a)  Agreed that the Council should sign up to the Disability Confident scheme and commit to achieving level 1; and

 

(b)  Agreed to establish a Member Task and Finish group to take forward a programme of work to enable the Council to achieve the requirements of the Disability Confident scheme.

 

This decision was first published on Tuesday 12 February and so the deadline for call-in is 5pm on Tuesday 19 February.


Meeting: 06/02/2019 - Cabinet (Item 12)

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Additional documents:

Decision:

Cabinet:

 

(a)  Agreed that the Council should sign up to the Disability Confident scheme and commit to achieving level 1; and

 

(b)  Agreed to establish a Member Task and Finish group to take forward a programme of work to enable the Council to achieve the requirements of the Disability Confident scheme.

 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered a report in respect of the Government’s Disability Confident scheme.

 

In response to Councillor Sue Ellington, the Leader expressed her wish that the concept of ‘disability’ should be defined as broadly as possible. She added that there should be a Lead Member to oversee the process of South Cambridgeshire District Council seeking to become a disability confident employer.

 

Councillor Anna Bradnam recognised the existence of local expertise in the field, and urged Cabinet to take advice from such sources, where appropriate. The Deputy Monitoring Officer reminded Members that this was an Executive function.

 

Cabinet:

 

1.    Agreed that the Council should sign up to the Disability Confident scheme and commit to achieving level 1; and

 

2.    Agreed to establish a Member Task and Finish group to take forward a programme of work to enable the Council to achieve the requirements of the Disability Confident scheme.