DISABILITY EQUALITY GIVEN A BOOST IN EDUCATION

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Liverpool Community College first in UK to back Disability Equality Commitment

An initiative to promote equality for disabled people in post-compulsory education was kick-started yesterday with its first official pledge from a further education college. The Disability Equality Commitment, facilitated by Lifelong Learning UK, is a framework to help organisations in further education recruit, retain, and train disabled employees so that they are equally represented in the sector. Liverpool Community College became the first institution to sign up and commit to disability equality in this way.

Read the full article at http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/lfi/DNWA-7LLGBS.

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