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Managing funding for anticipated and reasonable adjustments for disabled
students and staff in higher education
Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) has commissioned Impact Associates to
undertake a project which aims to support a more proactive and
anticipatory approach to funding support for disabled students and staff
in higher education.
The Disability Equality Duty requires institutions to anticipate and
make reasonable adjustments for disabled people. Through consultation
with the sector the project will identify current practice in
determining, funding and implementing anticipatory and reasonable
adjustments. The project is funded through HEFCE's disabled student
strategy with the primary focus on funding adjustments for disabled
students in Higher Education in England. It will also identify
innovative and good practice for funding staff adjustments as well as
areas for future work.
The attached questionnaire is the first stage of the study and has been
emailed to you as the named equality and diversity contact on ECU's
mailing list. We would be very grateful if you could provide a response.
We anticipate that the questions can be answered by the equality and
diversity manager and the disability service manager. However it may
also be appropriate to consult with other key staff in your HEI when
considering your responses, i.e. occupational health staff, human
resources staff, Additional Learning Fund manager and finance managers.
Please return your responses to [log in to unmask] by 11th September.
The second stage of the project to be undertaken in September will
involve identifying ten HEIs to explore in more detail their practice
and models with potential for transferability. It is intended to follow
up examples that adopt anticipatory approaches to disabled students and
staff which diminish the need for, and the costs of, individual
reasonable adjustments.
This study will result in a report and briefing which will identify
proactive steps institutions can take to develop inclusive management
and funding mechanisms for adjustments in HE. The project findings will
be disseminated at an appropriate event for the sector.
An advisory group has been established to support the project with
representation from: Association of Managers in Student Services,
British Universities of Finance Directors Group, Association of
University Administrators, Association of Heads of University
Administration, National Association of Disability Practitioners,
University and College Union, National Association of Student Money
Advisers, University College Employers Association, Unison, National
Union of Students, SKILL and Access to Work.
We look forward to receiving your responses and thank you in advance for
your contribution to this valuable project.
Kind Regards
IMPACT Associates and Equality Challenge Unit
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