Transcript Disability Equality Training presentation

Disability Equality Training
for Museum of London
Tess McManus
Working Together
Our space is:
• confidential
• a safe space to speak
• free of mobile phones
• comfortable
Today’s Aims
By the end of the training, you will have:
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an understanding of the wider diversity of disabled people
an understanding of disability from a removal of barriers
perspective
knowledge of a range of things that you can do to make
the museum and the activities you run:
– More accessible to disabled visitors
– More accessible for disabled volunteers
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confidence and competence in your communication with
disabled people
But…
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Who are you ?
What do you do?
What are you expecting ?
Are you bringing any particular issues or
questions?
Facts & Figures Quiz
Small group exercise:
Answer ‘True’ or ‘False’ to each of these statements
1. Most disabled people are born with their impairments True of False?
2. Most people have a disabled family member or friend True or False?
3. Disabled people are as likely to be employed as non
disabled people - True or False?
4. Most disabled people are wheelchair users - True or
False?
Facts & Figures Quiz - Answers
1.
Most disabled people are born with their impairments
False
www.equalityhumanrights.com
Facts & Figures Quiz - Answers
2. Most people have a disabled family member or friend
True
The 2001 census states that there are 11 million
disabled people in the UK. That equates to around 1:5
of the adult population.
www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/census2001.asp
Facts & Figures Quiz - Answers
3. Disabled people are as likely to be employed as non
disabled people
False
In 2006, there were 2.5 million disabled men and
women in the UK without work. The number of disabled
people claiming benefits has increased threefold since
1970.
DWP The employment rates of disabled people – 2006
Facts & Figures Quiz - Answers
4. Most disabled people are wheelchair users
False
www.equalityhumanrights.com
London’s Disabled Population
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More than 1.4 million Londoners are disabled.
National Statistics Online, Census 2001, www.statistics.gov.uk/census
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One in every 4 Londoners has a family member or
close friend who is disabled.
www.londonfirst.co.uk/improving_london/disability.asp?L2=19
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The likelihood of becoming disabled increases with
age: 8 per cent of Londoners between 16 and 24 are
disabled, compared with 23 per cent of those between
55 and retirement.
Disabled people and the Labour Market in London: Key Fact, Analysis of the 2005
Annual Population Survey by Lorna Spence(2007) in DMAG Briefing 2007 - -5,
Greater London Authority.
Traditional (“Medical”) Model
“Confined to a wheelchair”
Can’t climb stairs
Is sick
Needs a Doctor
Can’t see or hear
Can’t talk
Needs help
Can’t walk
Has a bitter attitude
Can’t use hands
Needs a cure
Is housebound
Needs Institutional care
Social Model
Badly designed buildings
Hypocrisy
Inaccessible transport
No lifts
No parking spaces
Poverty & low
income
Lack of PAs
Segregated Education
Isolated
families
Prejudiced
attitudes
Poor job prospects
Social Model…in an ideal world
Good building design
Support
workers
Parking
spaces
Good income
Inclusive Education
Accessible transport
Part of the
community
Lifts
Inclusive
attitudes
Good job prospects
Example: Medical & Social Models
Medical Model
Social Model
Weak hands so
cannot open jar
Packaging needs
re-designing
Impairment & Disability
• Impairment: an injury, illness or congenital
condition that causes or is likely to cause a longterm effect on physiological or psychological
functions.
• Disability: the loss or limitation of opportunities
to take part in society on an equal level with
others due to social and environmental barriers.
Types of Discrimination/Barriers
• Physical
• Informational / Communication
• Attitudinal
Impairment & Disability
Jane has an impairment. She has ME and gets tired
after a couple of hours. She needs to sit with her feet
slightly propped up. She has issues with short term
memory once she becomes tired and gets
headaches if she has to look at small print for any
length of time.
As part of her PhD research she and would like to
volunteer on the information desk at your museum.
What could be done to ensure that she is not
disabled within that setting?
Impairment Groups
• Mobility impairments
• Learning difficulties
• Mental health issues
• Visual impairments
• Hearing impairments
• Hidden impairments / long term health conditions
Equality Act 2010
• Cross-cutting legislative framework to safeguard the
rights of individuals from ‘protected characteristic’
groups.
• Updates, simplifies and, in some areas, strengthens
previous equalities legislation.
• Provides a single framework of discrimination law to
protect individuals from unfair treatment.
What / who the Equality Act covers
The ‘protected characteristics’ are:
• Age
• Disability
• Gender reassignment
• Marriage and civil partnership
• Race
• Religion or belief
• Sex
• Sexual orientation
Goods and Services
Discrimination is said to occur if:
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an individual receives no service or a lesser service for
reasons relating to their disability (for example, a visually
impaired person received less or no information about
an exhibit then a non disabled person)
a service is unreasonably difficult or impossible for a
disabled person to use (for example, a short film clip
about an exhibition has no subtitles and cannot be
understood by a Deaf person)
Reasonable Adjustments
• Making a reasonable adjustment means doing things
another way
• In the previous exercise, we identified a range of
barriers which might impact on disabled people from
different impairment groups
• Now we are going to look at solutions
Where Language Takes Us
Exercise:
Language impacts on how people understand and
interact with disabled people.
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Working in teams we would like you to list all the
offensive terms you have ever seen and heard to
describe disabled people e.g. in the media.
You will not be asked to call them out if you feel
uncomfortable doing so – we would just like you to
discuss and list them.
Where Language Takes Us
Feedback
Handicap – the root of this word comes from “cap-i’-hand”
and relates to begging.
Cripple – originates from the word “creep” and also relates
to places where disabled people were allowed to beg,
Cripplegate.
Invalid – relates to the ‘validity’ of wants and views of an
individual.
Neb (Yiddish) Amathon (Gaelic) – both mean “fool” or “idiot”
and show us that many cultures have a negative response
to disability.