39
Positive about Disability Double Tick scheme
The achievement of the Double Tick mark demonstrated
the College as an employer focussed on equality
of opportunity for disabled individuals.
The College satisfies the five commitments which enable
us to display the ‘two tick’ disability symbol.
These are:
>
to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy and to
consider them on their abilities
>
to discuss with disabled employees, at any time but at least once a year, what both parties can
do to make sure disabled employees can develop and use their abilities
>
to make every effort when employees become disabled to make sure they stay in employment
>
to take action to ensure that all employees develop the appropriate level of disability
awareness needed to make these commitments work
>
to review these commitments each year and assess what has been achieved, plan ways to
improve on them and let employees and Jobcentre Plus know about progress and future plans
Equality Challenge Unit Mainstreaming Project
A cross College team worked on a project with the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) to embed
the monitoring of Equality Outcomes within performance and planning processes, in particular
the Team Evaluation process. This work is now completed and is incorporated within the new
team evaluation.
This project and its outcomes were regarded as best practice across the college sector and
the College was asked by College Development Network and the Equality Challenge Unit to
showcase this initiative at the National Equality Challenge Unit Conference in Perth on the 27th
November 2014.
Equality and inclusion has also been mainstreamed within learning and teaching processes and
a toolkit and guidance documents have been developed to ensure that curriculum staff are
mainstreaming equality within all learning and teaching strategies and processes.
www.ayrshire.ac.uk