At Difference North East, we welcome efforts to remove barriers to employment. However, while schemes like “Working Well” provide valuable support, they don’t address the wider structural inequalities that disabled people face every day.
Read about who Mary Greaves was: a local disability rghts pioneer who deserves better recognition.
This article looks at why the Disability Confident Employer Scheme isn’t very good and it also suggests better alternatives.
Read all about Disability History Month.
Our Development Manager Claire recently won an award, but the language used left a bitter taste.
This is the story about the blue plaque commemoration of Mary Greaves, the disability activist and how North Tyneside Council got it totally wrong
Celebrate a key figure from the disability rights campaigner who lived in Whitley Bay
This explains what it’s like looking for work as a disabled person.
Some reflections on what inclusive recruitment should look like.
Rachel Couch has autism and hearing loss. She was not diagnosed with autism until she was an adult. She had to wait two years for her diagnosis. Rachel works at Atypical CIC. They help people with hidden disabilities find and keep jobs. A hidden disability is one you cannot see. Autism and hearing loss are hidden disabilities. Rachel says the world is often not built for people like her. This is called the social model of disability barriers in society are the problem, not the person. You have rights. You can ask for adjustments at work.