Disability Equality Scheme

The Housing Corporation’s Disability Equality Scheme explains in one document how we will make sure that we promote equality for disabled people, and work to ensure that people are treated fairly.

We aim to make sure that equality for disabled people is at the centre of our work as a regulatory body, and employer of choice for disabled people.

The Housing Corporation will work towards three broad objectives that were identified by disabled people. They are:

• making our own services more inclusive to disabled people;
• making housing more accessible to disabled people; and
• making sure we involve disabled people and that outcomes meet their needs and aspirations.

Our Disability Equality Scheme aims to:

• explain how the Housing Corporation will promote equality for disabled people;
• show how disabled people were involved in developing our scheme;
• challenge discrimination against disabled people;
• help remove barriers for all disabled people; and
• show how we will ensure that housing associations respond to the needs of disabled people.

The Disability Equality Scheme is accompanied by an action plan that details the steps we will take to meet out moral and legal obligations to disabled people and the wider equality agenda.

If you have any comments about the Disability Equality Scheme, please contact David Carrigan:

E-mail david.carrigan@housingcorp.gsx.gov.uk

Tel: 020 7393 2163