Access and Equity > Agencies
Detailed information on a range of access issues:
- Capability
Scotland
- Scotland's leading disability organisation providing a diverse range
of services including education and learning, family support and activities.
- Centre for Accessible
Environments
- The Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) is an information provider
and a forum for communication between providers and users.
- CLAUD
- Librarians in Higher Education networking to improve library access
for disabled users.
- Department
for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) - Employment Matters
- Aims to improve the quality of working life for individuals, and create
the conditions for business success. It supports better regulation and
works to promote best practice and effective employment relations.
- Directgov:
Disabled People
- Produced by the Central Office of Information, Directgov provides
information from across UK government departments, access to government
directories, and links to relevant third parties who can offer additional
trusted advice and support.
- Employers
Forum on Disability
- The Employers' Forum on Disability is the employers' organisation
focused on the issue of disability in the workplace. Established in
1986, the Forum works closely with government and other stakeholders.
- Enable Scotland
- A support organisation for people with learning disabilities and their
families in Scotland.
- Equality
and Human Rights Commission
- The Equality and Human Rights Commission is a non-departmental public
body established under the Equality Act 2006. It brings together the
work of the three previous equality commissions, including the Disability
Rights Commission, and also takes on responsibility for the other aspects
of equality: age, sexual orientation and religion or belief, as well
as human rights.
- Equal
and Human Rights Commission in Scotland
- Champions equality and human rights for all, working to eliminate
discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build
good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate
in society.
- JISC
- The mission of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is to
provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of Information
and Communications Technology to support education and research.
- Learning
and Teaching Scotland (LT Scotland)
- LT SCotland's role is to advise the Scottish Government and to support
development in learning and education, including the use of information
and communications technology.
- Museums, Libraries
and Archives Council
- The English development agency working for and on behalf of museums,
libraries and archives and advising government on policy and priorities
for the sector.
- RNIB
National Library Service
- The RNIB National Library Service aims to ensure that visually impaired
people have the same access to library services as sighted people. A
variety of books are available in alternative formats, such as Braille,
audio and large print. There is also an online resources service for
newspapers, dictionaries and reference books.
- The Network
- Supports libraries, museums, archives and other cultural and heritage
organisations (as well as individuals) who are working to tackle social
exclusion and inequality.
- Royal National Institute
for Deaf People
- RNID represents 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK.
They can advise on the best way to make recruitment processes and workplace
more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing people.
- Royal National Institute
of Blind People
- RNIB delivers a wide range of services for people who are blind and
partially sighted in the fields of employment, education, family support,
social work, social care, accessible information and the built environment.
- Scottish Disability
Equality Forum
- Works with members to identify gaps in support for people with disabilities
and their organisations. An infrastructure for access organisations
is a particular current concern.
- Scottish Funding Council
- SFEFC was established in 2005, distributes about GBP 1.5 billion in
funding each year for teaching and learning, research and other activities
in Scotland's colleges and universities.
- Scottish Further
Education Unit
- SFEU help Scotland's FE colleges tackle operational and developmental
issues.
- Scottish
Information Commissioner
- The SIC is responsible for ensuring that people get the information
from the public authorities to which they are entitled.
- Scottish
Sensory Centre
- SSC promotes and supports new developments and effective practices
in the education of children and young people with sensory impairments.
- Skill: National
Bureau for Students with Disabilities
- National charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults
with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment
across the UK.
- TechDis
- The JISC TechDis service aims to improve provision for disabled staff
and students in the further, higher and specialist education sectors
through technology.
- WebEQuality
- Provides access to disability equality training in the form of a web-based
course or "e-learning programme". This training is based on
the Social Model of Disability, which argues that disability is as much
a way that society treats people as a matter of any physical or mental
conditions they may have.
