October 27, 2023
The States of Guernsey has worked with disability organisation AccessAble to produce a free bespoke training tool for anyone in Guernsey to access.
The disability essentials course is a practical and engaging course which will provide knowledge and skills so that individuals can provide a great service to disabled people and their carers. It includes videos of the lived experience of those people with different disabilities.
- There are five modules.
- What do we mean by Disability?
- Disability Equality and the Law
- Types of impairments
- Providing a great service for everyone
- Language
- The whole course takes about 1 ½ hours, but modules can be done one at a time, depend on the time available.
For a flyer on the course see: Disability Essentials Course
The Disability for managers course which can be accessed through the same training account.
- There are five modules.
- Introduction- Legislation, Protected Grounds, definition of disability and carer status.
- Types of disability discrimination and other prohibited conduct
- Recruitment
- Reasonable adjustments for employers
- Reasonable adjustments for service providers
For a flyer on the course see: Disability for Managers Guernsey
To create a training account follow the link
To access the training when you have created the account follow the link