[access-uk] Re: BBC News - RNIB Failing Blind Unemployed
- From: "andrew shipp" <andrew-shipp4@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:29:44 +0100
Well doesn't this show the rnib up in a big way. they are trying to get
places to do there websites so we can use them, but they cannot be bothered
to do the simple thing like employ blind people to do the jobs that a lot
of sighted people do at the rnib. I had better shut up here.
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From: "John Gurd" <j.gurd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access-Uk" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 3:39 PM
Subject: [access-uk] BBC News - RNIB Failing Blind Unemployed
> The RNIB are currently running a major campaign to encourage employers to
> employ more blind people, but this BBC report makes it clear they aren't
> exactly leading by example...
>
> John Gurd
>
>
> BBC NEWS
> Charities 'fail' disabled workers
> Many charities which represent disabled people are failing to employ a
> significant number of disabled workers, a BBC Scotland investigation
> learned.
>
> It discovered that many have fewer employees with a disability than some
> major private-sector companies.
>
> The RNIB (Royal National Institute of the Blind) recently said that
> three-quarters of visually impaired people of working age are not in work.
>
> However, less than 8% of its own staff are disabled.
>
> The charities aim to end discrimination in the workplace and encourage
> employers to look beyond a person's disability.
>
> But in the BBC survey the extent to which the charities themselves employ
> disabled people was discovered to be patchy.
>
> Below the mark
>
> The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) came out top of the
list
> with 40% of its workforce in Scotland being disabled.
>
> Momentum, a charity which assists physically and mentally disabled people
> move towards independence and employment, came second with 11%.
>
> The RNIB has less than 8% of its workforce that are disabled.
>
> Capability Scotland and Sense Scotland employ between 5% and 6% disabled
> staff.
>
> The Scottish Association for Mental Health and the Guide Dogs for the
Blind
> Association fall below even that mark.
>
> The disabled need role models of other disabled people who are in
important
> jobs
> Nick Lewis
> Ready Willing Able
>
> Gwen McCreath, assistant director of RNIB Scotland, said the charity does
> not operate a policy of positive discrimination.
>
> She said: "Inevitably some other charities might have higher employment
> rates of disabled people because they positively discriminate, and perhaps
> in certain
> aspects of their work only employ disabled people.
>
> "RNIB encourage disabled and non-disabled people to apply for jobs and
gives
> them an equal chance. But at the end of the day we are an organisation
that
> provides services, we are a campaigning organisation and we need to be
sure
> that the people we are recruiting can do the job."
>
> Nick Lewis, editor of Ready Willing Able, a recruitment journal aimed at
> disabled people, believes that the explanations given by charities are
poor.
>
> He said: "The disabled need role models of other disabled people who are
in
> important jobs and so the charities who are representing us are the key
> people
> who could create these role models."
>
> Making it happen
>
> The Glasgow Centre for Independent Living provides disability equality
> training to other organisations and 70% of its staff are disabled.
>
> Training coordinator John Dever said: "They tend to see disability as a
> problem that needs to be fixed rather than a barrier that has to be
removed.
>
> "You must admit there is a credibility issue.
>
> "Obviously as a small organisation we make it happen because we are
> committed to making it happen.
>
> "They might be talking about it but we are actually doing it in reality."
>
> Story from BBC NEWS:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/scotland/3899097.stm
>
> Published: 2004/07/16 08:37:42 GMT
>
> © BBC MMIV
>
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