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EmployAbility: Disability Awareness Training

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Fife EmployAbility Team's Disability Awareness Training Packages will provide employers and staff with the skills to:

• Gain a greater understanding of disability
• Recognise and avoid the attitudes which create barriers and prejudice
• Feel confident and comfortable when talking to a colleague or customer with a disability

Integrate people with disabilities in the workplace Implementing a Disability Awareness Training programme within your business will show that you, as an employer are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to people with disabilities, as required by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

The Disability Awareness Training (DAT) packages on offer from Fife EmployAbility Team include:

General Disability Awareness Training

Employer's Training Recruitment, Selection and Retention of Hayley Binnie, Asda employees with disabilities Dunfermline

Specific Disability Awareness Training:

Our training packages can be tailored and delivered to suit you.

For more information contact Lisa Mulligan on 01383 821975

For more information about specific disabilities, follow one of the links below.

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