Disability Equality given a boost in education
20 November 2008
An initiative to promote equality for disabled people in post-compulsory education was kick-started yesterday with its first official pledge from a further education college. The Disability Equality Commitment, facilitated by Lifelong Learning UK, is a framework to help organisations in further education recruit, retain, and train disabled employees so that they are equally represented in the sector. Liverpool Community College became the first institution to sign up and commit to disability equality in this way.
Maureen Mellor MBE, Principal of Liverpool Community College, signed the pledge at this week's Association of Colleges conference, in the company of Paul Mackney, the Chair of the Disability Equality Implementation Group which launched the initiative.
Find out more about the Disability Equality Commitment
