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At the moment we require individual departments to fund any costs that aren't met by Access to Work. The problems is that we have no way of equal treatment across all departments. Also given financial constraints, disabled members of staff may feel reluctant to request equipment when it has to come out of an already tight department budget, and may fear that this will create resentment from other staff. I'm keen for us to move towards the model of central finance. The Disability Equality Implementation Group (including ECU representation), which is charge with taking forward the recommendations of the Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning, wants universities to sign up to the Disability Equality Commitment in Lifelong Learning to review and implement the disability equality recomendations. One of these is to finance reasonable adjustments centrally so that no department or faculty is disadvantaged, financially of otherwise, in meeting disability equality responsibilities. http://www.lluk.org/disability-equality-commitment.htm I, too, would be interested in what's happening elsewhere. Caroline -- Caroline Moughton Equal Opportunity & Diversity Co-ordinator (ASA, CA, EFM and LR) and Staff Disability Adviser L 3.12, Library, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford OX3 0BP 01865 483148 [log in to unmask] Rich, Tammy wrote: >I would also be interested in responses to this question and would also like to hear from institutions where it is the responsibility of the individual department and what issues arise from that. > >Many thanks >Tammy > >Tammy Rich | Diversity and Equality >Diversity and Equality Unit | Kingston University | 53 Portland Road | Kingston | KT1 2SH >DL: 020 8417 4025 | Internal: 64025 | Fax: 020 8417 4159 | [log in to unmask] > >-----Original Message----- >From: HE Administrators equal opportunities list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sanchia Alasia >Sent: 06 March 2009 09:09 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Paying for reasonable adjustments > >I would be interested in how your university pays for reasonable >adjustments for staff with disabilities. Here we do not have a central >pot, each department pays individually. > >For those of you who have a central pot: > >1. How is this funded? >2. How are applications made to it? >3. Is there a cap on how much monetary assistance is given to each >department/individual? > >Thanks > > -- Caroline Moughton Equal Opportunity & Diversity Co-ordinator (ASA, CA, EFM and LR) and Staff Disability Adviser L 3.12, Library, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford OX3 0BP 01865 483148 [log in to unmask]