A Fairer Scotland for Disabled People - Our Delivery Plan to 2021 for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Persons with psychosocial disabilities face disparate access to healthcare and social services worldwide, along with systemic discrimination, structural in... ...
In July 2015 the Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training in the Scottish Government published a discussion paper, 'Creating a fairer Scotland: employability support'. This aimed to draw upon the wealth of experience within communities and employer and provider networks, to shape future...
Working together towards a fairer welfare system for disabled people Join our Campaign #Millionsmissingout The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) is a national coalition of over100 different charitiesand other organisations committed to working towards a fair benefits system. ...
Employment Assessment for Unemployed and Disabled People – Could Item Response Theory Offer a Fairer Deal?Psychological Assessment Materials (PAMs) are used widely to support employment related decision-making in the UK. The vast majority of occupationally focussed PAMs are based on Classical Test ...
Never in my life have I seen a finer, fairer, and more orderly ringside crowd, and in this connection it must be remembered that the majority were in favour of the man who was losing. That many thousands of men could sit quietly for forty minutes and watch their chosen champion hopelessly...
Growth outcomes for children without and with DS were found to be similar when DS-specific growth standards were used for children with DS, allowing for fairer comparison with their peers. Comparing our findings with other published data proved challenging as previous studies used standard growth cha...
s application on behalf of trans activists Victoria McCloud and Stephen Whittle to intervene in theappeal brought by For Women Scotlandon the question of “What is a woman?”– an application for which they’dcrowdfunded£31,874 from 849 midwits with interesting pronouns – was dismissed by...
We are publishing separate Manifestos for Scotland and Wales. Law and Order Protection of the law-abiding citizen is a prime duty of the State. We have given higher priority to the support of law and order and the reduction of crime than any Government for many years. The overall volume of...
This is the first exploratory study to scope and evaluate the implications of such a strategy for businesses within a service context, namely the visitor economy. Using the example of Scotland's visitor attraction sector, this paper utilises two sources of primary data to assess how one sector ...
A site currently promoting awareness and debate of how the poorest students in Scotland face the highest government debt: "essential reading for a critical commentary on the funding of Scottish higher education" Wonkhe