> The HESA compulsory data collection details state that we should
> record the type of disability, but also HESA require us to provide
> data collection with regard to
> 1. The student has a disability which is registered
> 2. The student has a disability which is not registered
>
> I thought that there was no registration as disabled
> any more. Skill tell me that the DDA did away with registration,
> but that for access to Social Services provision registration with
> Social Services may be required. If this is the case then registration is
> irrelevant to HESA isn't it - because access to Social Services
> is not what HESA want to know is it?
For what it is worth, the DfEE no longer regard "registerability" as
significant to applications for DSA (if indeed they ever did). They
simply rely on medical or other proof of the existence of a suitable
condition. "Suitable" is an altogether different ball game.
Dave Laycock MBE
Head of CCPD, Chair of NFAC
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
University of Westminster
72 Great Portland Street
London W1N 5AL
tel. 0171-911-5161
fax. 0171-911-5162
WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
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