Much work has been done, and many recommendations have been made in recent years to speed up improvements for disabled students across the sector.
Most recently, the Disabled Student Commitment launched by the Disabled Students’ Commission in April 2023 seeks to encourage providers and relevant organisations to place disabled students at the top of their agenda.
While the sector faces a number of equality, diversity and inclusion priorities at any given time, initiatives such as the Commitment remind us that disability as a protected characteristic is of no less importance than its counterparts.
No-one would dispute that support for disabled students, while accepting it as a responsibility for staff across the whole provider, can still only be achieved with comparable levels of support for staff working in disability services.
