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Disability Confident Scheme

Meeting: 17/01/2019 - Employment and Staffing Committee (Item 5)

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Minutes:

The Head of People and Organisational Development presented this report, which recommended the Disability Confident Scheme to Cabinet. It was noted that the Committee had been asked by Council to investigate this issue, after agreeing a motion from Councillor Peter McDonald.

 

National scheme

It was noted that this was a nationally recognised scheme, which had replaced the two ticks disability scheme.

 

Meeting the requirements of the Scheme

The Head of People and Organisational Development explained that the Council was already achieving many of the commitments listed in level 1 of the Disability Confident Scheme. She expressed the hope that the authority would achieve Level 2 and then Level 3 of the Scheme, after achieving Level 1.

 

Task and Finish Group

The Committee recommended that Cabinet set up a Task and Finish Group, consisting of officers and councillors, to investigate how the Council could achieve level 1 of the Disability Confident Scheme.

 

The Committee unanimously

 

RECOMMENDED TO CABINET    

 

A)        That the Council signs up to the Disability Confident Scheme;

 

B)        That a Task and Finish Group be established to take forward a work programme aligned to achieving Level 1.