Motion
- Motion title
- Disability Discrimination
- Session
- 2022-2023
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 27 May 2023
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 57
- Motion text
Post COVID has exacerbated the number of learners with severe learning difficulties, making support for disabled students a huge issue. Post-16 educational employers are forcing our members to support students with extreme SEND (Special educational needs and disabilities) needs, ignoring the fact that they are not specialists in this field, failing to conduct necessary safeguarding or risk assessments for members and students.
Management are misusing peer learning/learning buddies as a source of support for their peers with learning needs/SEND. These students are not adults, not professionals or trained specialists.
UCU calls for employers to:
1. carry out Risk Assessments with the view to providing reasonable adjustments for students
2. make available ongoing specialist SEND support for learners
3. provide comprehensive training, workload allocation and support for all staff working with disabled learners
4. ensure comprehensive counselling provision is made available to these group of learners
5. make EHCP (Education, Health and Care plan) funds available for this purpose.
- Proposing body
- Disabled members' standing committee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Equality committee
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2023/C/05-27/034/57