Promoting Equality and Inclusion for people with disabilities: In Careers, Society and as Students: In School, Higher Educ and Profess-training/Medical Educ
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Jobseekers told to call their depression 'low mood' on applications theguardian.com/society/2019…
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Some of the reports of disability discrimination and abuse of students by Warwick University staff have been appalling. Truly shocking disregard for inclusion and disability rights
#equality #inclusion #disability #highereducation #warwickuniversity #discrimination
Perhaps it’s time too to launch an investigation into the unethical and overt discrimination towards students with disabilities by @warwickuni.
They have little or no regard for the legal and ethical requirements of the #EqualityAct and harrass students who speak out about it
Identity politics is dividing Britons, warns equality commission chief theguardian.com/society/2019…
Online abuse of disabled people is getting worse – when will it be taken seriously? theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Survey into disabled musicians finds serious failings at UK venues theguardian.com/music/2019/m…
Disability Inclusion retweeted
"I just want him to come home. "Mark was never ill, never off school, never off work and he had never been in hospital. Now he's a crippled wreck of a man with his bones sticking through his ribs, unable to walk"
#wentindepression #fewweeks #11yearslater
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Disability Inclusion retweeted
Poverty is harming children’s capacity to learn and it’s getting worse, suggests a survey of teachers. “I try to teach my phonics group as I am giving others cereal to eat,” one teacher told researchers. > I think “Make Poverty History” needs resurrecting ow.ly/whIq30oqfUy
Disability Inclusion retweeted
I’m going to just say this quick: disabled people don’t owe you answers to your questions about them. It’s not on us to teach you. If you ask a disabled person a question about their disability & they don’t feel like answering you, walk away.
Special-needs children lose out on £1.2bn of support, says union theguardian.com/education/20…
'Don’t dwell on what you can’t do': travelling with disabilities theguardian.com/travel/2019/…
Disability Inclusion retweeted
DWP’s latest confession on safety failings and benefit deaths: ‘We keep no record of complaints linked to deaths’
#JusticeForJodey #DWP #ICE #FreedomOfInformation #BenefitDeaths
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Disability Inclusion retweeted
“My child was given to me deaf, so we all sign at home. I don’t believe you should ever force a deaf child to be oral.”
- a hearing parent during an IEP meeting
US Government Wants to Use Social Media to Decide Disability Benefits | The Mighty themighty.com/2019/03/social…
'Misleading' DWP letter causing ill and disabled people to lose benefits theguardian.com/society/2019…
Disability Inclusion retweeted
I will never ever forget how disabled kids have been treated by this Government, I will never stop until every kid in my son's class has an equal chance at success as the kids of those who sit on the benches opposite to me. What if this were your child?
DVLA U-turns on autism disclosure policy after uproar over discrimination theguardian.com/society/2019…
