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Disability confident

longman

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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  • A roadshow was launched 21st November www.gov.uk/.../national-drive-to-boost-disability-employment-first-ever-disability-confident-roadshow-tours-britain  The title to search for is "National Drive to boost disability employment first ever disability confident roadshow tours britain" 

    The Department of Work and Pensions underlying knowledge of disability needs is a real cracker, accessable from this website with a link to the "research report" in the section More Information.

    A survey was carried out by a Principle Research Officer at the DWP entiled "A Survey of Disabled Working Age Benefit Claimants (IHR16)" published July 2013.

    The survey asked 1349 claimants a number of questions for a range of parameters NONE OF THEM TO DO WITH DISABILITY!!

    Question 5 does ask for disability category code 1-10 of which 10 is "Anything else (specify)". 4 is Dexterity, 5 is Memory and 8 is Stamina or breathing or fatigue.

    9 is Socially or Behaviourally, for example associated with autism, attention deficit disorder or asperger's syndrome.

    1 Vision 2 Hearing 3 Mobility - for example walking short distances or climbing stairs. Noting about wheelchairs! Respondents had to chose one category to describe themselves and there was no complex/multiple option.

    Table 5.6 tells us the numbers in each category including each parameter they've compared it with (being 5 claimant types, three age groups 18-34, 35-54 and 55 plus, seeking work (yes or no), 4 qualification categories, oh and whether they considered themselves disabled (yes, no or sometimes).

    Vision 8%, hearing 8%, mobility 62%, dexterity 35%, learning or understanding 22%; memory 29%, mental health 49%, stamina or breathing 40%. socially or beheviourally 11%; anything else 17% and refused 4% Yes I know they are percentages and they don't add up to 100, or 1349. None of the disability categories subsequently figures in any of the 26 tables. They just refer to "disability" like disability is a condition in itself.

    It horrifies me that I'm paying taxes for something this badly put together by a Government Department.

    One of the questions was about whether or not you think yourself disabled such as: "I have a disease but its not a disability" and "my health problems are quite common". There isn't actually a question under this whether or not they think they are disabled - just bland statements - pick one. Very leading.

    It staggers me to ask whether we have any hope of a future in this country. High paid high pensioned Civil Servants produce work like this so atrociously poor its an embarrassment to be British.

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  • A roadshow was launched 21st November www.gov.uk/.../national-drive-to-boost-disability-employment-first-ever-disability-confident-roadshow-tours-britain  The title to search for is "National Drive to boost disability employment first ever disability confident roadshow tours britain" 

    The Department of Work and Pensions underlying knowledge of disability needs is a real cracker, accessable from this website with a link to the "research report" in the section More Information.

    A survey was carried out by a Principle Research Officer at the DWP entiled "A Survey of Disabled Working Age Benefit Claimants (IHR16)" published July 2013.

    The survey asked 1349 claimants a number of questions for a range of parameters NONE OF THEM TO DO WITH DISABILITY!!

    Question 5 does ask for disability category code 1-10 of which 10 is "Anything else (specify)". 4 is Dexterity, 5 is Memory and 8 is Stamina or breathing or fatigue.

    9 is Socially or Behaviourally, for example associated with autism, attention deficit disorder or asperger's syndrome.

    1 Vision 2 Hearing 3 Mobility - for example walking short distances or climbing stairs. Noting about wheelchairs! Respondents had to chose one category to describe themselves and there was no complex/multiple option.

    Table 5.6 tells us the numbers in each category including each parameter they've compared it with (being 5 claimant types, three age groups 18-34, 35-54 and 55 plus, seeking work (yes or no), 4 qualification categories, oh and whether they considered themselves disabled (yes, no or sometimes).

    Vision 8%, hearing 8%, mobility 62%, dexterity 35%, learning or understanding 22%; memory 29%, mental health 49%, stamina or breathing 40%. socially or beheviourally 11%; anything else 17% and refused 4% Yes I know they are percentages and they don't add up to 100, or 1349. None of the disability categories subsequently figures in any of the 26 tables. They just refer to "disability" like disability is a condition in itself.

    It horrifies me that I'm paying taxes for something this badly put together by a Government Department.

    One of the questions was about whether or not you think yourself disabled such as: "I have a disease but its not a disability" and "my health problems are quite common". There isn't actually a question under this whether or not they think they are disabled - just bland statements - pick one. Very leading.

    It staggers me to ask whether we have any hope of a future in this country. High paid high pensioned Civil Servants produce work like this so atrociously poor its an embarrassment to be British.

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