Disability Legislation News
ESSC Media Release on multi-ground Equality Legislation
Following on from the previous blog, ESSC media release on multi-ground equality legislation, here is the press article on the subject including quotes from MIND and Age Concern. You can also listen back to our Partnership Director Karen Blanchford interview [...]
Committee for Employment & Social Security consider multi-ground Equality Legislation
Please find below the press release from ESSC. The GDA, Rob Platts & Karen Blanchford sit on the legislation project team that has been reviewing disability discrimination and working with the Galway legislation experts. We support this proposal but would [...]
Disability Officer Update
www.signpost.gg Guernsey’s website providing information for disabled people about services, activities and support is regularly updated. The aim of the website is to give you as much information as possible including contact details and referral criteria where required. If you cannot [...]
10th Anniversary TONIGHT – 30th April
Come along and join us tonight at Les Cotils from 7 until 9pm. We will be celebrating 10 years since the signing of the GDA constitution. the evening will include: how far we have come - what has been achieved [...]
Request from Cystic Fibrosis Guernsey to all GDA Members
From Mike Read - Cystic Fibrosis Guernsey Many of you may have read Deputy Roffey’s recent column in the Guernsey Press entitled “Should we spending more” and my subsequent response as President of Cystic Fibrosis Guernsey. Essentially Guernsey patients suffering [...]
Workshop 2: Preventing Discrimination slides
Thank you to everyone that attended Workshop 2 on Wednesday 18th April where we discussed preventing discrimination. You can download a pdf of the slides. The video will follow shortly.
Workshop 2: Prevention of disability discrimination
The general aims of this second session include inviting participants to consider and explore concepts commonly employed within legislation aiming to prevent and remedy discrimination. After a brief recap of the principles covered in the first session, participants will discuss [...]
GDA workshop 1: Human Rights video
The video from the 1st Workshop on preventing discrimination, focusing on Human Rights, is now available to view at the link below. You are welcome to share it. The slides for the workshop are in our previous post here. Any [...]
Disability Law article in Guernsey Press
Please read below the article published in the Guernsey Press in respect of the Disability law.
Members update disability discrimination legislation
Please find below a member update from Rob Platts MBE on the recent announcement from ESS (Employment and Social Security) “Guernsey's new disability discrimination legislation will be based on the Irish and Australian laws,”. We welcome this progress. I have [...]
Disability Discrimination Legislation update
The GDA welcomes the Committee for Employment and Social Security’s (ESSC) announcement regarding its decision to base Guernsey’s disability discrimination legislation on the Australian and Irish models. The process of reviewing legislation from six jurisdictions was a considerable and complex [...]
Human Rights Workshop
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Thank you to everyone for all their great feedback on last night’s workshop 1: Human Rights, we had so many apologies but strong interest that we have booked a 2nd session of this same workshop for Friday 13th April 12-2pm [...]