Disabled Students Stakeholder Group
The stakeholder group consists of representation from the following organisations:
The group has met several times. Relevant papers from the meetings are available below:
Meeting 1 - 23 January 2004 - Agenda, Minutes of Meeting, Additional Papers
Meeting 2 - 7 April 2004 - Agenda, Minutes of Meeting, Additional Papers
Meeting 3 - 26 May 2004 - Agenda, Minutes of Meeting, Additional Papers
Meeting 4 - 25 August 2004 - Agenda, Minutes of Meeting, Additional Papers
Meeting 5 - 11 January 2005 - Agenda, Minutes of Meeting, Additional Papers
Meeting 6 - 1 March 2005 - Agenda, Minutes of Meeting, Additional Papers
Meeting 7 - 31 May 2005 - Agenda, Minutes of Meeting, Additional Papers
Meeting 8 - 11 October 2005 - Agenda, Minutes of Meeting, Additional Papers
Meeting 9 - 2 March 2006 - Agenda, Minutes of Meeting
Meeting 10 - 18 May 2006 - Agenda, Minutes of Meeting, Additional Papers
Meeting 11 - 2 November 2006 - Agenda and Minutes
Meeting 12 - 14 May 2007 - Agenda, Minutes
Meeting 13 - 8 November 2007 - Agenda, Minutes
An invitation letter was sent out on the 25 January 2005 to disability advisers and extended learning support co-ordinators inviting their institutions to take part in the pilot of the toolkit for needs assessment.
The Scottish Government and the Scottish Funding Council jointly commissioned the BRITE Initiative to undertake a mapping study of the current provision of further education across Scotland for students with profound and complex needs. You can read the published report here.
A sub-group of the DSSG recently met, to discuss the taking forward of the monitoring and quality enhancement of those assesment centres validated under the toolkit pilot.
- Minutes of the meeting of 27th September 2006.
A sub-group of the DSSG was established, as part of the of the Review DSA, to examine and provide recommendations on the need of having a diagnosis of a disability for the purpose of claiming DSA.
- Agenda of the meeting of January 2008
- Minutes of the meeting of January 2008
- Paper of the meeting of January 2008
Disabled Students Stakeholder Group - Subgroup on Diagnosis and Evidence
- Agenda of the meeting of February 2008
- Minutes of the meeting of February 2008
- Agenda of the meeting of April 2008
- Agenda of the meeting of May 2008
- Minutes of the meeting of May 2008