Sentences with phrase «equality duties despite»

The issue in R (M) v Birmingham CC [2009] EWHC 688 (Admin) was whether a local authority had complied with its general disability equality duties despite not having consciously taken them into account when assessing a disabled person's community care needs and making service provision decisions based on those needs.

Needs were assessed and reviewed, and service provision decisions taken, in a way which complied with the general disability equality duties despite the fact that the decision maker had not consciously set out to comply with those duties.