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Dear Stephen You might want to contact Vincent McKay at the Glasgow Caledonian University who is the Associate Dean at the School of Health and Social Care. As an Occupational Therapist within the university he has been involved in providing consultancy and practical intervention to support disabled people and their service providers in employment, education and wider. The kind of services he could offer are not exhaustive but include the following: * Access Audits * Advice regarding access and egress planning (including personal evacuation planning and evaluation) * Full functional assessment of need for individuals employees/students/service users * Specialist advice regarding aids/adaptations/seating and personal care support resources * Advice on embedding disability equality into strategic policy and planning * Disability awareness and training As well as supporting people in employment & guiding their employers , he has also been involved in working with universities in terms of supporting staff and students, and has good insight into the issues, culture and experiences within HE/FE given his position within the Glasgow Caledonian University. He can be contacted by email at: [log in to unmask] or by phone on 0141 331 8385 Margaret McKay eLearning Advisor: Accessibility & Inclusion JISC Regional Support Centre - Scotland South & West Tel: 0141 585 0022/0023 Fax: 0141 585 0020 Textphone or Typetalk users: 18001 0141 585 0022/0023 [log in to unmask] www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk <http://www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/> Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the University of Glasgow shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it ________________________________ From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen O'Melia Sent: 04 May 2007 14:42 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Physical access audits Dear all We had a full physical access audit carried out in 2002. However since then we have built a number of new buildings and the use of several buildings have changed. We are now considering carrying out a new audit and are looking around for a company with experience in this field. Does anyone have any recent dealings with any companies carrying out these audits that they would recommend? If you have, please respond off-line to [log in to unmask] Stephen C. O'Melia Disability and Academic Skills Co-ordinator University of Chichester 01243 812076