Community University of the Valleys Partnership Training Event 

Disability Equality Workshops

Facilitator Andrew Hubbard - Freelance Disability Equality Trainer

This training programme will help you explore the many social, attitudinal and physical barriers that people with disabilities face when attempting to access services. The training will consider disability as an equality issue, raising awareness of how poor design, inaccessible information and people’s attitudes are often more disabling than any physical impairment. You will reflect on ease of access to services and resources and get advice on developing plans to remove identified barriers. The training will also introduce the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) and help you review how you meet its requirements.

The training will be of interest to all staff and volunteers involved in the delivery of

learning and associated services. It is targeted at staff of all levels within learning

organisations including tutors, development workers, team leaders, managers, guidance

workers, receptionists, office staff, catering staff, childcare staff etc. The training will be run

as practical workshops with participants actively involved.

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Profile: Andrew Hubbard

Born in Merseyside and educated in Manchester during the mid 1970s, Andrew moved to

South Wales to take up a degree in English and Classics at Swansea University.

After becoming blind, Andrew went into denial; he hated the word Disabled. He was

encouraged to ‘overcome’ his ‘problem’. Self- denial led Andrew down a dead-end road

resulting in clinical depression and unemployment. A complete life change came through

discovery of the social model perspective of disability. Andrew believes disability is a political,

human rights and equal opportunities issue.

Andrew works with the Welsh Development Agency on a European Equalities in Employment

Project. He is a free-lance Disability Equality Trainer. He is currently a Director of Disability

Arts for the Arts Council of Wales (Training) and a Director of Disability Wales.  He writes and performs comedy sketches in Disability Arts Forums