Is it discrimination or not discrimination?
Disability discrimination is when a person is treated unfairly or less favourably than other people because of their disability.
Discrimination can happen in many ways. It can be:
- direct – when a person is treated differently and in a way that causes them disadvantage. For example, a person not being allowed into a restaurant because they are in a wheelchair;
- indirect – when policies, laws and practices that treat everybody the same puts people with disability at a disadvantage. For example, a local council designs a playground that children with disability can’t get in to.