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Making Space for Homeless Queers: An Interview with The Outside Project
Liam Hurren
2 December 2020
Disabled people returning to work in the pandemic – a case study
For those of us fortunate to have jobs, our work is important to us - it’s our answer to the question “what do you do?” It provides us with most of our social interaction, it gives our days and our weeks structure, it gives a sense of purpose, and a sense of achievement (and sometimes of failure). Most people want to work but disabled people are more than twice as likely as non-disabled people to be unemployed. Most of us who work fear losing our jobs but many people with disabilities have a genuine and perhaps well-founded concern that if they lose their job, they will never get another.
1 December 2020
Has COVID made the legal workplace more disability inclusive?
Almost a year since it published its report on the career experiences of disabled people in the legal profession, Legally Disabled, in partnership with the Lawyers with Disabilities Division of The Law Society of England and Wales, has just released it latest research exploring how the pandemic has impacted the working lives of disabled lawyers. The research, which was launched on 2 November 2020, shows that the move by firms towards almost universal remote working could make the legal profession more accessible to those with disabilities in the long term.
3 December 2019
IDPWD: Why are disabilities not more widely discussed?
I suspect that many of you may not be aware that today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This is a UN initiative that has been observed since 1992.
The question, is why 27 years on is this still a subject that is not widely discussed. Thinking about it this morning it seems to me there are many reasons and below I have given two of the most obvious.
25 September 2019
Getting disability inclusion on the agenda; being diversish is not enough…
2020 will mark the 25th anniversary of the enactment of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, which made it unlawful to discriminate against disabled persons in connection with, amongst other things, employment. How far have we come since then in ensuring access to the (in my case, legal) workplace, and what more needs to be done to ensure that our offices are not diversish, but truly diverse.