Zusammenfassung der Ressource
LEGISLATION
- Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act
- first act to recognise and give rights to
people with disabilities
- Disability Discrimination Acts 1995 & 2005
- gives people with disabilites rights in
- employment
- education
- access to facilities and services
- make it easier for tennants to
make disability related adaptions
- public bodies
have to promote
equality of
opportunities
- Children's Act 1989
- introduced notion of parental responsibility
- refers to rights and privileges of child in relation to contact with parents/carer (foster care, Jordan)
- Mental Defficiency Act 1913
- proposed seperation
of those with mental
illness into seperate
Institutions
- Care Standards Act 2000
- set minimum standards for residential care