[senco-forum] Disability Equality Policy

Not sure where you are based but Birmingham certainly has a policy

I'm so glad to hear that Birmingham is addressing this issue. Any
chance you could let me have a copy of this document or let me know
from whom I could obtain this?

One issues I keep coming up against is the attitude "Senior management
knows best" ...none of whom have any first hand experience of daily
living with disability. This from a profession within which workers
who have significant disabilities are grossly under-represented owing
to past blatant and continuing subtle institutional discrimination
against disabled people wishing to work in schools.

David Bowles

> Not sure where you are based but Birmingham certainly has a policy
> document called Success for Everyone, recently revised and
> republished, which goes through all the issues, starting with ethos
> and managerial responsiblities. It is also published online, free to
> Birmingham users and about to be available to others for a small
> fee. Cheers Jan

>> One of my pet gripes about most of the Disability Equality Policies
>> I've seen published by most schools is the fact these concentrate
>> almost exclusively on 'the material provision of facilities'...