Dear Fehmeeda,
many thanks for this.
Best wishes
Michelle
On 02/03/2007 13:07, Fehmeeda Riaz wrote:
> Dear Michelle,
>
> We provide disability awareness training for both managers and tutors,
> we have an occupational health service for staff and I am responsible
> for equality and diversity issues relating to staff including policy
> development. We have a separate Disability Services Team for students
> and there is a Disability Liaison Tutor in each of our 10 schools. We
> have around 24,000 students and the most commonly declared disability
> is dyslexia. I think it would be fair to say that there is far more
> disability support available for students compared to staff (we have
> around 2,500 staff). The vast majority of disability issues or
> support relating to staff tends to get dealt with by HR with support
> from Occupational Health.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Fehmeeda
>
>
>
> Fehmeeda Riaz
> HR Manager - Equality & Diversity
> University of Westminster
> HR Department
> 115 New Cavendish Street
> London, W1W 6UW
>
> Tel: 020-7911-5776
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HE Administrators equal opportunities list
> [_mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michelle Holliday
> Sent: 02 March 2007 12:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: supporting disabled staff
>
> Hi,
>
> As part of our DES action plan we are reviewing how we support
> disabled staff & their managers within the University.
> I'd be interested in finding out how other universitys are managing
> this & would be especially interested to know if there are any
> universities where support for disabled staff & students is managed by
> one team.
>
> I'm happy to collate & circulate any responses I get.
>
> Many thanks
> Michelle
>
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