Annex 1 Northern Ireland Assembly Audit of Inequalities Action Plan 2012-2016 (ongoing actions) Action taken to Outcome S75 Category Intended In the current Lead Timescale better promote Area(s) outcome/impact service equality of and how this Business Plan opportunity/good will be (Yes/No) relations measured Improve accessibility Access to Persons with a Improved No. Further Head of Building To be agreed. to the Chamber and Parliament disability and accessibility to improvements will Services Official’s Boxes Buildings persons without Chamber for all require extensive within the Chamber Members. re-modelling of the Increased capacity chamber. for Official’s with If required (and mobility issues. approved), such works will be included in future Business Plans. Implementation of Access to Persons with a Improved No. All work items Head of Building To be agreed. access audits Parliament disability and accessibility to within our remit Services completed by RNIB, Buildings persons without Parliament relating to the Disability Action and Buildings for audits have been Action on Hearing Access to persons with a completed. Loss regarding a Services disability. Other wider programme of All projects are issues ‘estate’ designed and have been passed constructed in to DFP. accordance with Further agreed Building improvements will Regulations and be included in other relevant relevant Business legislation. Plan.
Annex 1 Northern Ireland Assembly Audit of Inequalities Action Plan 2012-2016 (ongoing actions) Action taken to better promote equality of opportunity/good relations Outcome Area(s) S75 Category Intended outcome/impact and how this will be measured In the current service Business Plan (Yes/No) Lead Timescale Improve accessibility to the Chamber and Official’s Boxes within the Chamber Access to Parliament Buildings Persons with a disability and persons without Improved accessibility to Chamber for all Members. Increased capacity for Official’s with mobility issues. No. Further improvements will require extensive re-modelling of the chamber. If required (and approved), such works will be included in future Business Plans. Head of Building Services To be agreed. Implementation of access audits completed by RNIB, Disability Action and Action on Hearing Loss regarding a programme of Access to Parliament Buildings Access to Services Persons with a disability and persons without Improved accessibility to Parliament Buildings for persons with a disability. All projects are designed and constructed in accordance with Building Regulations and other relevant legislation. No. All work items within our remit relating to the audits have been completed. Other wider ‘estate’ issues have been passed to DFP. Further agreed improvements will be included in relevant Business Plan. Head of Building Services To be agreed.
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