The Bristol Conference
Workshop 2 - overcoming obstacles
1. What obstacles could you face in trying to meet the needs of disabled people at work? (This could include resistance from your employer, other staff, limited resources, time, capacity, etc?)
- Funding and resources
- Attitude, perception and ignorance
- Performance related pay
- Lack of mainstreaming
- Duty to provide
- Intransigence
- Acute and chronic problems
- Media images
2. How could you overcome these obstacles?
- Risk assessment
- Education
- Health and Safety
- Raise self esteem
- Mainstreaming
- Campaign for improved legislation
- Value disabled people
- Identify sources of funding
- Use diverse images
- Cost benefit analysis
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