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
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From: HE Administrators equal opportunities list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michelle Holliday
Sent: 02 March 2007 12:19
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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