Marks & Spencer commit to Changing Faces campaign
-Marks and Spencer has become the first retailer to sign up to the Face Equality at Work campaign run by Changing Faces. Research by the charity has revealed that many…
NRAC Autumn Conference
-The National Register of Access Consultants is holding a conference in Birmingham on the b 15th October 2009. The venue is Maple House 150 Corporation Street Birmingham B4 6TB Tel:…
Disability Definitions
-Different government departmens of disability, this resunts use different definitiolts in differing statistics on the number of disabled people and misses out certain groups of people who may have rights…
Disability Law Service training courses
-The Disability Law Service (DLS) is running a series of training courses in October and November 2009. These will be of particular interest to people who work with or provide…
New BS8300
-Following extensive consultation, the long-awaited revision to BS 8300 has finally been released. The publication is entitled BS 8300:2009 Design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of…
Tackling Inconsiderate Parking
-From June, local authorities in England will have more powers to tackle inconsiderate parking. If motorists double park or park at dropped kerbs, councils will be able to issue Penalty…
Police Discrimination Cases on the Increase
-Disability Now (DN) have reported that seven times more police officers are bringing disability discrimination cases against their forces than five years ago. Between 2003 and 2008, the number of…
Real Jobs for People with Learning Difficulties
-A partnership of the Social Exclusion Task Force, the Department of Health and the Department for Work and Pensions have published a cross-government Learning Disability Employment Strategy, called Valuing Employment…
Social Housing Landlords and Human Rights Act
-This article is not about disability we have many clients who fall in to this category some may benefit from this article. Approximately two million tenants of Registered Social Landlords…
Disability Ruling
-A Northern Ireland ruling in a case brought by Mrs Elizabeth Boyle who claimed she had been discriminated against by her former employer, SCA Packaging. Mrs Boyle developed vocal nodules,…
About Access Managing Director
-Ian Streets is the Managing Director of About Access and has 10 years experience in the disability field. How did I get involved in access. This was through a good…
