Disability Equality Training
Disability Equality Training
“Supporting disabled people is no longer about looking after them… It is about addressing the societal barriers that discriminate and undermine their human rights”
Complying with Equality legislation is an obligation for all types of organisation, be it those in the public private or voluntary sectors, since the Equality Act came into force in 2010. Its purpose to ensure that all individuals in society are treated equally and not discriminated against. This applies to a number of protected characteristics including disability. The act protects people in:
- Employment
- Access to goods,facilities, services and premises
- Education
- Transport
Business rational for offering the DET to your staff
Why I Offer Disability Equality Training, rather than Disability Awareness Training
Disability Awareness Training
- Simulation-These have been used to illustrate “what it is like to have a disability“ e.g. Individuals are placed in wheelchairs or blindfolded.
- Provides false information about the situation of disabled people, who develop all kinds of strategies which cannot be simulated.
- Focuses upon supposed difficulties, problems, inadequacies and inabilities of disabled people.
- Focuses upon impairment rather than disability.
- Reinforces the view that disabled people, as a social group, are basically people in need of care and support.
- Another problem with simulation, is that it has been known to induce people to “have a go” outside the training environment. This often results in great hilarity and joke-making, however , disabled colleagues or clients can find this most offensive and feel that they have become the butt of the humour.
Disability Equality Training
- Is about challenging understanding of disability, changing practices and addressing barriers, rather than just about ‘improving attitudes’.
- Promotes a social, rather than, an individual tragedy model of disability contributes, to the wider struggle for equality,among devalued social groups. .
- Uses discussion-based methods for teaching and learning rather than simulation.
- Uses perspectives developed by disabled people through the Disabled People’s Movement and their lived experience. This often results in great hilarity and joke-making, however , disabled colleagues or clients can find this most offensive and feel that they have become the butt of the humour.
“Supporting disabled people is no longer about looking after them… It is about addressing the societal barriers that discriminate and undermine their human rights”
Complying with Equality legislation is an obligation for all types of organisation, be it those in the public private or voluntary sectors, since the Equality Act came into force in 2010. Its purpose to ensure that all individuals in society are treated equally and not discriminated against. This applies to a number of protected characteristics including disability. The act protects people in:
- Employment
- Access to goods,facilities, services and premises
- Education
- Transport
Business rational for offering the DET to your staff
Society as a whole also has a moral obligation to its citizens to ensure that everyone is part of an inclusive society. This naturally includes business organisations who want the best talent and in order to do this it is vital that all businesses create inclusive workplaces. Therefore it is seen as good employment practice to have inclusivity policies in place.
Makes all customers feel at ease and furthers your staff’s knowledge of disability.
Your staff and employees are more confident when it comes to disability.
Why I Offer Disability Equality Training, rather than Disability Awareness Training
Disability Awareness Training
- Simulation-These have been used to illustrate “what it is like to have a disability“ e.g. Individuals are placed in wheelchairs or blindfolded.
- Provides false information about the situation of disabled people, who develop all kinds of strategies which cannot be simulated.
- Focuses upon supposed difficulties, problems, inadequacies and inabilities of disabled people.
- Focuses upon impairment rather than disability.
- Reinforces the view that disabled people, as a social group, are basically people in need of care and support.
- Another problem with simulation, is that it has been known to induce people to “have a go” outside the training environment. This often results in great hilarity and joke-making, however , disabled colleagues or clients can find this most offensive and feel that they have become the butt of the humour.
Disability Equality Training
- Is about challenging understanding of disability, changing practices and addressing barriers, rather than just about ‘improving attitudes’.
- Promotes a social, rather than, an individual tragedy model of disability contributes, to the wider struggle for equality,among devalued social groups.
- Uses discussion-based methods for teaching and learning rather than simulation.
- Uses perspectives developed by disabled people through the Disabled People’s Movement and their lived experience. This often results in great hilarity and joke-making, however , disabled colleagues or clients can find this most offensive and feel that they have become the butt of the humour.