disability A person has a disability if he or she has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on that ability to carry out normal person’s day-to-day activities. Certain medical conditions are automatically classed as being a disability for example, – cancer, HIV infection, multiple sclerosis. disabled person Someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. discrimination arising When a person is treated unfavourably because of from disability something arising in consequence of their disability; for example, a restaurant does not allow a visually impaired customer to come in because they want to bring their dog inside. The dog is a guide dog and the reason the customer has the dog is because of their disability. If it is objectively justifiable to treat a person unfavourably because of something arising from their disability, then the treatment will not be unlawful. It is unlikely to be justifiable if the service user has not first made any reasonable adjustments. disproportionately low Refers to situations where people with a protected characteristic are under-represented (e.g. among service users) compared to their numbers in the population. diversity This tends to be used to refer to a group of people with many different types of protected characteristic, e.g. people of all ages, religions, ethnic background etc.
disability A person has a disability if he or she has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on that person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. Certain medical conditions are automatically classed as being a disability – for example, cancer, HIV infection, multiple sclerosis. disabled person Someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. discrimination arising from disability When a person is treated unfavourably because of something arising in consequence of their disability; for example, a restaurant does not allow a visually impaired customer to come in because they want to bring their dog inside. The dog is a guide dog and the reason the customer has the dog is because of their disability. If it is objectively justifiable to treat a person unfavourably because of something arising from their disability, then the treatment will not be unlawful. It is unlikely to be justifiable if the service user has not first made any reasonable adjustments. disproportionately low Refers to situations where people with a protected characteristic are under-represented (e.g. among service users) compared to their numbers in the population. diversity This tends to be used to refer to a group of people with many different types of protected characteristic, e.g. people of all ages, religions, ethnic background etc.
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