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Disability Awareness

  • 25 Minutes
  • For all staff
  • jurisdiction UK

Disability awareness helps organisations build environments that work for employees, service users and the public. This 25-minute course covers legal obligations under equality law including the Public Sector Equality Duty, impairment versus disability, the physical, communication and attitudinal barriers people face, and when reasonable adjustments apply.

Many disabilities are not visible, and the reasonable adjustments duty is anticipatory in service provision, so waiting for someone to ask is already too late. Public bodies carry the PSED on top of that, which requires equality to be actively considered in decisions rather than simply not breached. Training staff builds accessibility into how work happens.

objectives

What you’ll learn in
this course

  • Recognise the legal obligations under equality law, including the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED)

  • Recognise the importance of disability awareness at work and in society

  • Distinguish between an impairment and a disability, and identify different types of discrimination

  • Identify physical, communication and attitudinal barriers that disabled people may face

  • Describe what reasonable adjustments are and when they apply

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