News

Job Opportunity

[11 March 2010] University of Cambridge - Disability Resource Centre - Disability Adviser (Part Time) [More information]

NADP Annual Conference 2010

[23 Feb 2010] 'Inclusive Curriculum and Assessment - equalising the student experience, how level is the playing field?', 29th/30th June 2010, Oxford. {Workshops updated} [More information and booking form]

NADP Spring Conference 2010

[11 Feb 2010] This one-day conference on Neurodiversity will take place in Birmingham on Thursday 29th April 2010. Reminder: Early bird booking ends on 26 Feb. [More information]

DSA-QAG update

[27 Jan 2010] For members: DSA-QAG Update January 2010 (login required)

NADP Research Ethics Procedure

[20 Jan 2010] For anyone wishing to engage in research via the NADP mailing lists. [More] (login required)

Student Finance Stakeholder Interest Group

[10 Jan 2010] For NADP members: New SFSIG Terms of Reference.

Journal of inclusive practice in Further and Higher Education

[18 Dec 2009] Issue 2 of the journal (Neurodiversity) will be available from Monday 21st December.

NADP Autumn Conference

[9 Dec 2009] Notes from the one-day conference The Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT), London, 16 November 2009, are now available.

Chair's Update

[24 Nov 2009] November 2009 Update by NADP's Chair Nicola Martin.

Hopkins Review

[6 Nov 2009] The NADP Board of Directors have submitted a paper of evidence for Professior Sir Deian Hopkins Review into Student finance Delivery in England 2009.

Disabled Students Allowances

[6 Nov 2009] NADP report on DSAs situation sent to parliamentarians asking questions in both houses this week.

NADP Action Plan

[5 Nov 2009] For NADP members: Download the NADP Action Plan 2009-2010. (login required)

All recent news

NADP One Day Conference - September 2009

Writing your new Disability Equality Statement and Action Plan

The target audience is those directly involved in writing the new round of Disability Equality Schemes which are due to be published in December 2009.

Wednesday 16th September 2009
Jury's Inn, 245 Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2HQ

Presentations and transcript

Presentations and transcript can be downloaded in the Members' Area. (login required)

Programme

[Word icon] September Conference 2009 Programme (MS Word .doc, 29 Kb).

Time Program item
9.00 - 9.45 Arrival / registration / refreshments
9.45 - 10.00 Welcome by a member of NADP Board of Directors
10.00 - 11.00 Session 1: The Task Ahead - The legal requirements for the Disability Equality Scheme and Action Plan changes, development & what was learned - Amy Bryant (Equality Challenge Unit)
11.00 - 11.30 Refreshment Break
11.30 - 12.30 Session 2: What can we learn from our 2006 Schemes and their Action Plans? - Deb Viney (Diversity Advisor, SOAS) & Mark Pimm (Disability Service Manager, Birkbeck)
  1. Which of your Action Plan targets did you meet?
  2. Which ones didn't you meet?
  3. What were the enabling factors?
  4. What were the barriers to meeting the targets set in the DES?
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch
1.30 - 2.30 Session 3: Another perspective on what we can learn from our 2006 Schemes and Their Action Plans - Peter Quinn (Senior Disability Adviser, University of Oxford).
2.30 - 3.00 Refreshment Break
3.00 - 4.00 Session 4: How to fit a Disability Equality Scheme and Action Plan into a "Single Equality Scheme" - Paul Crofts (Equality and Diversity Advisor, University of Northampton) & Sarah Lewis (Equality and Diversity Manager, University of Coventry)
4.00 - 4.30 Final Plenary - all speakers will be available for a Q&A session

Further information

For further information please contact:

NADP Ltd.
Moulton Park Business Centre
Redhouse Road
Moulton Park
NORTHAMPTON
NN3 6AQ

Tel./Fax: 01604 497933

Email: <admin@nadp-uk.org>