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Your employer must not deny you training opportunities because you are disabled.

Your employer must also make reasonable changes to improve the accessibility of a training programme. Changes might include:

• providing individual training for disabled employees to use any adaptations or special equipment used in the workplace
• providing training over a longer period for employees who can only attend a training course for a limited number of hours per day
• providing training material in different formats, making sign language interpreters available and allowing trainees to bring a personal assistant on a course
• adjusting premises used for training

Your employer might also:

• train other staff to understand the organisation's policy towards disabled people
• provide disability equality training for all staff
• be an example of good practice by setting standards of accessibility within the organisation
• make the services they are providing accessible to disabled people

Equality Act 2010

Your employer must meet the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 (EA). It is also important that your employer ensures that staff members understand the implications of the EA and comply with it.

• Employment rights and the Equality Act 2010

Useful contacts

• Employment contacts