Editing Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (section)

==History==
The Act was the culmination of a [[Rights Now|public campaign]], and at least 100,000 people in demonstrations, to force the government to end state and business discrimination against disabled people.<ref>See Scope, 'The Disability Discrimination Act 1995: The campaign for civil rights' (2 November 2015) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwP1xuZZFuY youtube.com]</ref> While the [[Race Relations Act 1976]] and the [[Sex Discrimination Act 1975]] guaranteed minimum standards for equality on grounds of race and gender, there had been very little concerning disabled people. Prior to the DDA, the first attempt to deal with the issue of disability was the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944. This made it a legal requirement for companies with over 250 employees to employ a quota of disabled persons. This failed as there was not now anyone appointed to monitor these rights and as such was toothless.

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