As we said last year, we think that staff who have a disability themselves are the ones who should decide on this. We therefore want to bring this suggestion to the staff forum next year. Action Measure Intended Outcome Performance Indicator and Timescale Target and Ownership 18. Create and promote meaningful People with a disability Guidance paper. BSO placement opportunities including gain meaningful work Increased number of Equality Unit for people with disabilities in line experience. placements provided. BSO with good practice and making use Resources Placement participants’ of voluntary expertise in this area. Year 1 feedback from evaluations. Produce practical guidance on onwards process and external support Managers’ feedback from available. evaluations Relevant Duty: Encourage participation by disabled people in public life AND promote positive attitudes. What we did over the last year We sent information to all our senior managers about placements. We asked them to have a think whether they could offer a placement for a person with a disability. We told them about how the placements work and what they need to do. We learned from our experience of hosting people last year. They told us what went well. They were also able to tell us what we need to do differently. We offered 12 placements in total. Eight people with a disability started with us in December. They will spend 26 weeks on their work placement. They work in our Procurement and Logistics Service, Counter Fraud and Probity Services and in IT Services. Half way through their placement we offered them training on how to apply for jobs in Health and Social Care. We also took them through mock interviews.
As we said last year, we think that staff who have a disability themselves are the ones who should decide on this. We therefore want to bring this suggestion to the staff forum next year. Action Measure Intended Outcome Performance Indicator and Target Timescale and Ownership 18. Create and promote meaningful placement opportunities including for people with disabilities in line with good practice and making use of voluntary expertise in this area. Produce practical guidance on process and external support available. People with a disability gain meaningful work experience. Guidance paper. Increased number of placements provided. Placement participants’ feedback from evaluations. Managers’ feedback from evaluations BSO Equality Unit BSO Resources Year 1 onwards Relevant Duty: Encourage participation by disabled people in public life AND promote positive attitudes. What we did over the last year We sent information to all our senior managers about placements. We asked them to have a think whether they could offer a placement for a person with a disability. We told them about how the placements work and what they need to do. We learned from our experience of hosting people last year. They told us what went well. They were also able to tell us what we need to do differently. We offered 12 placements in total. Eight people with a disability started with us in December. They will spend 26 weeks on their work placement. They work in our Procurement and Logistics Service, Counter Fraud and Probity Services and in IT Services. Half way through their placement we offered them training on how to apply for jobs in Health and Social Care. We also took them through mock interviews.