Schools have a range of duties under the Equality Act 2010: to staff, as employees; to parents and others, where the school is providing a service to other people using the school; and to pupils, staff and others who share other protected characteristics as well as disability.
The Council for Disabled Children (CDC) has recently published a guide which is designed to help teachers understand the legislation and how it applies to their work with disabled pupils in their school. It explains what the Equality Act requires of schools and of governors, trustees and others who are the ‘responsible body’ for the school.
The guide draws on examples of practices that may amount to discrimination or that may help schools to avoid discrimination. Many of these examples are drawn from the decisions of the Tribunal, so provide insights into the issues that schools have found difficult to handle. A series of blogs picks up some of these issues in a more reflective way.
Information to the guide can be found here with links to the blogs mentioned above and the guide itself can be found here.
The CDC is holding a free webinar titled ‘Disabled children and the Equality Act 2010’ on May 10 at 4:30-6pm and you can register for it at Eventbrite.
