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Disability confident

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Could we have more information from NAS about David Cameron's Disability Confident initiative launched in July, and how NAS is getting involved?

Part of this is about trying to persuade employers to recruit disabled people. That's something we need to explore on this discussion forum.

They are using poster like "Great Minds Think Differently" and "Unlock Potential" - just I must be looking in all the wrong places for them.

The section on making reasoonable adjustments is frankly scary. Offer a blind person a glass of water.

There's a "Hidden Impairment Toolkit" that includes autism and asperger's syndrome, produced by HING Hidden Impairment National Group. This is the organisation set up to guide the Department of Work and Pensions in understanding disabled needes during the re-assessment of pension eligibility.

So no guesses for how reliable HING's toolkit is going to be. Why isn't NAS providiong a toolkit - unless the best NAS could offer was the Triad of Impairments....

But otherwise autism isn't mentioned.

Is there something we should be told?

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  • ...sorry, just re-read your post, I'm doing my special "missing bits of text" thing again.

    It does say on the "HING thing":

    Following a recent internal review of our group we are currently updating our resources for employers which includes our website.

    If you would like to be contacted after we have completed the update of our resources please contact info@hing.org.uk with your organisation name, and contact details as well as the nature of your enquiry and we will be in touch at a later date.

    Perhaps the HING thing will be better than what the NAS can offer.  After all, not all information on the NAS website is 100% correct.

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  • ...sorry, just re-read your post, I'm doing my special "missing bits of text" thing again.

    It does say on the "HING thing":

    Following a recent internal review of our group we are currently updating our resources for employers which includes our website.

    If you would like to be contacted after we have completed the update of our resources please contact info@hing.org.uk with your organisation name, and contact details as well as the nature of your enquiry and we will be in touch at a later date.

    Perhaps the HING thing will be better than what the NAS can offer.  After all, not all information on the NAS website is 100% correct.

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