[access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers
- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:09:34 +0100
Here here but she will not. I got her to write to the Open University at the
beginning of the year which went over a 4 month period amd 3 letters sent by
her to the Open University who denied receiving any of them. In the end I made
such a fuss to the Vice-Chancellor's Office that the NP was contacted by the
university had to contact her office amd have her letter faxed over. This done
the university then told me that the NP had written to Milton Keynes amd that
as my tutor was an Associate Lecture amd based in London it was highly likely
that the NP letters were sitting in a tray in Milton Keynes amd nobody knew
where to send them. This would suggest that the Open University would not look
my name amd course up on a computer amd match me with the tutor's name to whom
the letters were addressed. Then the university told me that as that was my
tutor last year amd I had a new tutor this year my tutor to whom my Np wrote
would not be obliged to respond as she no longer had anything to do with me.
Not only that but once they got the NP'S letter faxed over the person in the
Complaints amd Appeals at the Open University informed me that the
Vice-Chancellor to whom the letter was addressed not only would not be replying
to it but would not even have sight of the letter. This person in the
university told me that she would simply look at previous corresponda between
me amd the university amd would simply send my NP a copy of the corresponda the
whole think stinks. I cannot blame the NP EXCEPT to say that she was not seeing
things from my perspective but from that of the university. I have tried to get
newspapers amd radio stations interested but they are not which is a pity. I
think they fear the Open University suing them. I will certainly try amd
interest the media when I go to Milton Keynes on 1 September.
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers
From: "jim o'brien" <jim.taggart@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 30/07/2009 7:32 pm
may i suggest you take this to your m.p. and lets hope he/she is not one of
the m.p.s with their nose in the troff and is willing to take your case up
and give it the same publisity as the expenses has had.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony" <tonys_groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:26 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers
> I'm horrified, absolutely horrified.
>
> So why aren't organisations who claim to represent the blind making a huge
> fuss about this?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> martin wilsher
> Sent: 30 July 2009 18:04
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers
>
> HIBarbra and all.
>
> I am in a similar situation to will, and have gone for job interviews and
> also have gone on govt schemes to help get into work. Now let me relay aa
> few stories. I went on the new deal for disabled people. The DEA
> basically
> threw me at employers and said, the law says you cannot discriminate, so
> employ him. Most employers were enthusiastic until they actually had to
> do
> soemthing to help me over and above their usual, then they binned me,
> after
> about three days in one case. Then I went on another scheme that afbp
> told
> me was accessible to blind. Turned out they weren't, and that they were
> in
> it for the EU money. I went in dressed in a suit, with laptop, copy of
> jaws
> on pendrive, for SATOGO and SA weren't known to me then, and with NRA in
> hand. I was first asked, where's your carer, then when I told them I'd
> lived on my own for years, they dropped that question. I explained about
> jaws for windows, and about what it was. They wouldn't let me install it.
> In the end, I had to jobsearch with my own computer. They could not even
> make the course amterials in accessible format. About the only thing this
> place did was give me funding to do voluntary work with a riding stable.
> Now they were meant to come to the stable to check I was actually doing
> the
> work, and did they? No. They were meant to get in touch with my boss,
> but
> tdid they? No. I spent six mmonths doing my part of the thing, while
> they
> did nothing. This was another govt scheme btw, and at one point, they
> tried
> to claim that giving me an ethernet cable to allow me to connect to their
> intrnet was accessibily, and they'd complied with the Dda because of this.
> Hmm, no. AFBP blew hot air at this company, but that was it. And yes,
> this
> was new labour. I am going for an nvq this september, and I wonder if
> AFBP
> will help me if I get into trouble with access? Probably not.
>
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