[access-uk] Re: Charity for blind hits out at Bromley council
- From: <Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:46:04 -0000
They should have carried out an equality impact assessment before making the
final decision to cut the funding.
They should have carried out an impact assessment to see whether the benefits
of producing the leaflets in other languages would warrant the expense. I'm not
saying everything should have been available in English only, but that they
should have been ready to produce them in other languages on request and in a
timely manner. That way, they'd only physically produce the leaflets they had
been asked for, rather than skads of the things which may have ended up
gathering dust on bookshelves.
Regards,
Clive
Clive Lever
Diversity Advisor
01622 221163 (extension 7000 1163) Room 1.15, Sessions House, County Hall,
Maidstone, ME14 1XQ.
Diversity is a strength and we will value and harness difference for the
benefit of all service users, the individual and KCC.
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Jonathan
Sent: 11 January 2011 16:33
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Charity for blind hits out at Bromley council
Make the council squirm. I did, and they HATE it!
A council who was funding a project benefiting LOTS of blind people in my area
decided that they could no longer fund the £800 per year.
Just £800.
So I asked the council how much it cost them annually to translate all their
benefit material into a variety of foreign languages.
They wriggled and squirmed and evaded. Eventually the figure of £45,000 came
out.
Subdividing that into number of non-English speaking people of that group who
may possibly ever use that leaflet, it came out at £200 per potential user. For
a leaflet.
The icing on the cake was that no-one had actually DEMANDED the leaflets be
translated.
The moral of the story is; if you're a blind English-speaking tax-paying
resident of the county, sorry nothing for you.
If you wish to turn up can't be ***ed to learn English and would like some help
claiming benefits, well, which direction would you like us to bend over for you?
It makes me so angry, especially when idiots try and claim you're being racist
for even questioning such grotesque unfairness.
Not going to make political capital by naming the political hue of the council
at the time, I'm pretty sure you can guess that one!
Needless so say, local papers LOVE that sort of thing. Worth submitting a FOI
request just so:
A: They know you're onto them and
B: The satisfaction of watching them trying to explain it away in the local
media :)
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