Housing info equality act 2010
Case reference FOI2019/00736
Published 2 August 2019
Request
For each calendar year since 2010, please could you tell me:
1. How many requests have been made by members of the public to your council to make reasonable adjustments to buildings within your district, under s.20 of the Equality Act 2010?
2. Of these requests, how many requests for changes were made specifically requesting changes to accommodate a claimant who is partially sighted or blind?
3. How many public buildings have cooperated with the reasonable adjustments requests since April 2010?
4. How many public buildings have not cooperated with the reasonable adjustments requests since April 2010?
5. How many discrimination claims have been lodged against the council for failing to make reasonable adjustments to buildings under the Equality Act 2010, and how many claims specifically concerned blindness or sight loss?
6. How many council-employed staff have undergone visual impairment training since April 2010
7. How many changes have been made to buildings under council control since April 2010 with the following: a. Physical feature changes to buildings to accommodate people with blindness or sight loss b. Additional aids or services provided to accommodate people with blindness or sight loss c. Changes to building operations to accommodate people with blindness or sight loss Preferred format: machine readable / Excel Thank you in advance for any information that you can provide.
Response
We have interpreted your request to be concerning public buildings only and therefore we would respond as follows:
1. How many requests have been made by members of the public to your council to make reasonable adjustments to buildings within your district, under s.20 of the Equality Act 2010?
None
2. Of these requests, how many requests for changes were made specifically requesting changes to accommodate a claimant who is partially sighted or blind?
N/A
3. How many public buildings have cooperated with the reasonable adjustments requests since April 2010?
N/A
4. How many public buildings have not cooperated with the reasonable adjustments requests since April 2010?
N/A
5. How many discrimination claims have been lodged against the council for failing to make reasonable adjustments to buildings under the Equality Act 2010, and how many claims specifically concerned blindness or sight loss?
None
6. How many council-employed staff have undergone visual impairment training since April 2010
We do not record this data. However all staff undergo mandatory disability awareness training which does include an element of visual impairment The course is currently delivered by a profoundly deaf and visually impaired trainer.
7. How many changes have been made to buildings under council control since April 2010 with the following:
a. Physical feature changes to buildings to accommodate people with blindness or sight loss
56 (please note that we have counted any identical change across multiple buildings as only one change - eg we installed tactile braille signs on public buildings but have only counted this as one change)
b. Additional aids or services provided to accommodate people with blindness or sight loss
We do not record numbers of additional services provided centrally but there are services including literature available in large print, community transport, we make sure all the contributors to our website are trained in writing for the web and follow Plain English guidelines.
Corporate Property Services
Directorate of Community Services
www.guildford.gov.uk
Guildford Borough Council
Millmead House, Millmead, Guildford, Surrey GU2 4BB
The size of the text on our website can be resized using browser controls, see the W3C text resizing instructions. You can also find out how to change text and background colour from the W3C instructions we provide, this is not an exhaustive list but highlights a few of the additional services we provide.
c. Changes to building operations to accommodate people with blindness or sight loss
We do not record this data, but would highlight that our premises managers and their staff will assist anyone entering our buildings with a disability dynamically, depending on their needs and individual requirements.
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