Transforming your organisation through disability equality

This interactive workshop will be relevant to those with an interest in and commitment to disability equality for staff and learners in all areas of lifelong learning including:

• Strategic leaders and managers – principals, heads of service, chief executives, directors
• HR directors
• Premises and campus managers
• Equality and diversity managers and champions
• Disabled staff in consultation and involvement forums within their organisations
• Other staff throughout the lifelong learning sector

The lifelong learning sector includes FE colleges, sixth form colleges, adult and community learning, work-based learning, museums, libraries and archives, higher education institutions.

Objectives

This interactive one day training workshop aims to:

• Introduce the work of the LLUK Disability Equality Implementation Group (DEIG), following on from the report of the Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning

• Establish the importance of disability equality as of benefit to disabled people but also to whole organisations
• Enable lifelong learning organisations to implement the relevant recommendations of the Commission
• Assist lifelong learning organisations in meeting their Disability Equality Duty
• Explore proactive ways of achieving disability equality
• Prepare lifelong learning organisations to have the confidence to make the disability equality commitment