National Disability History Month 16th November to 16th December
Dear Barnet Group Unison member,
Do you have a disability?
If so, have you ‘declared’ it to the employer?
If you haven’t, please consider doing so – the employer can’t make reasonable adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2010 if they don’t know that you have a disability or condition.
It is really easy to ‘declare’ a disability – go to ITrent – click ‘view profile’ – under ‘confidential information’ click on ‘sensitive information’ – scroll to the bottom of the page and populate ‘self-certified disabled’ and ‘Disability description’ – and that is it – should your disability become an issue that you need a bit of help with, you would have ‘declared’ the disability/condition and the employer has to recognize that you may need to have reasonable adjustments put in place to help you.
Please consider declaring your illness/disability/condition – there is no stigma – I speak as someone with a long-term mental health issue [depression] who has declared their disability to the employer – the declaration is in complete confidence – and the help that I received and still receive to ‘manage’ my depression was only possible because my disability had been declared.
I have a disability – I am not disabled.
In solidarity
Patrick
Patrick Hunter
Barnet UNISON Assistant Branch Secretary for The Barnet Group
UNISON National Disability History Month event
27 November 20236:00pm–8:30pm
We’re holding a national event to celebrate Disability History Month and we’d love it if you could make it to London for it – or join us online!
The event will see the launch of our campaign for a new two-week deadline for reasonable adjustment requests. It takes place from 6pm on Monday 27 November at the UNISON Centre in London.
We’ll have some great speakers including Dr Marie Tidball, Labour parliamentary candidate for Penistone & Stockbridge and Bruce Robin, UNISON Legal Officer. There’ll also be a reception afterwards and a chance to speak to other disabled members about the campaign.
If you need support if you would like to travel to the event. Please contact the Barnet UNISON office at Contactus@barnetunison.org.uk
You can also join online –
Links to register:
Register to attend in person in London – https://msg.unison.org.uk/c/1cnOYMhTK8gpqoyeWiUQMPN
Register to attend online – https://msg.unison.org.uk/c/1cnOZPeco4t24WVFRdXuObY