Call for bids November 2018
Charities, businesses and other organisations were invited to apply for grants from the Committee for Employment & Social Security for awareness-raising initiatives on disability specifically and human rights/equality generally.
The Committee has launched this programme in connection with its duty under the Disability & Inclusion Strategy, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other international conventions.
You can find the full Media release in our downloads section.
Awarding of awareness raising grants December 2018
The Committee was pleased to announce there were three successful applications for awareness raising projects.
Walkers will run an equality series of presentations on reasonable adjustment, what does disability mean, human rights and equality and discrimination in Guernsey. You can find more information in our downloads section. The next presentation is on "Adjusting for disability: Case studies for employers"
The Equality working group are running a series of presentations and workshops on equality, inclusion, diversity and human rights. The next presentations are on "What are your children learning about their rights?", "Employment and disability"and "Cultural Competency". See the link to the website for more details.https://equality.gg/
The Guernsey Society for Physically Disabled People will run an animation campaign about disabilities on social media.
