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• Disable Inequality: How to challenge disability discrimination

  24-02-2022 18:39
  
  Disable Inequality is a new UNISON campaign to help health members identify and tackle disability discrimination in the NHS.
  The Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES) requires all NHS Trusts in England to report data on the workplace experience of disabled workers. 
  The latest WDES report found that only 3.5% of NHS staff identify as disabled on the NHS formal record system, but in the Staff Survey 19% identified as disabled.This may be because staff do not feel able to tell the NHS
  
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• UNISON slates government plans for English university education

  24-02-2022 11:27
  
  UNISON has warned that government plans for higher education, unveiled today, set out a worrying picture for those wanting to enter higher education and those working in it.
  Students in England will have to pay back university loans over 40 years rather than 30, in a move that is designed to save the Treasury billions of pounds.
  The proposals will see graduates needing to start to pay back their loans when they reach a lower income threshold of £25,000. This change will have the greatest i
  
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