City Disabilities is still running its survey on the attitude of employers to disability in the workplace. We’ve had some fascinating responses, and would like to provide one more opportunity for people to contribute. If you have a disability or long term health condition, please complete the survey. It is anonymous, consists of 17 multiple
EmployAbility work with a variety of employers to provide opportunities for applicants with disabilities and long term health conditions. They are currently advertising a wide variety of roles that would be of interest to a number of our mentees, and we would encourage you all to find out more. To read more about them all,
We are delighted that a wider variety of disabilities are now acknowledged to affect a person’s ability to get out and about. The expansion of the Blue Badge Scheme will help many people to avoid isolation and enables less stressful travel. You can read more about it here.
Evidence given to the Work and Pensions Select Committee recently shows that employers taking part in the Disability Confident jobs scheme are performing very poorly. The attached report makes for depressing reading: “with the current rate of progress it would take nearly 1,000 years to meet the government’s target of securing jobs for another one
Do any of our mentees or mentors use King’s Cross? If so we’d love you to help this A level student with a quick survey about whether the King’s Cross regeneration project has met its objective of promoting accessibility. It’s a very short survey that you can access here.
“Why are disabled people seemingly unexpected in the legal profession and what can we do to create a culture of inclusion and access?” These are the questions that the Cardiff University based “Legally Disabled?” research team are setting out to answer. The researchers held a series of focus groups around the UK with disabled legal
Readers will recall an earlier post about the research that DRILL (Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning) are working on, entitled “Legally Disabled”. The research will investigate and map out the negative and positive experiences, choices and views of disabled people working or seeking to work in the legal profession. The success of the project relies
City Disabilities would like to recruit a few solicitors/barristers/trainee lawyers who are on the autistic spectrum, to mentor junior lawyers and trainees/law students. If that’s you, and you are interested in becoming a mentor for us, please get in touch. The process is confidential and does not need to include your employer. Please share this
EmployAbility are currently advertising a number of internships, graduate roles and scholarships, with companies including Willis Towers Watson, KPMG, Bloomberg and Google. Some of the application deadlines are approaching, so don’t miss out! You can read more here: https://www.employ-ability.org.uk/internships
Our Trust Officer Liz Dawes wrote this piece about celebrating differences, and how we can all learn to do the same: It’s World Autism Awareness Week. So what should you be “aware” of? Well, autism is different for each person. But for my two children I’ll say this: Disability is a practical issue we solve