ETC Numbers of students with a disability on all courses

Disability type Student enrolments Blind/partially siQhted Multiole Disabilities Deaf Information refused/not known Wheelchair user/have mobility difficulties Mental health difficulties Other Unseen disability, eg diabetes, epilepsy, asthma Dyslexia No known disabilitv MissinQ Disabilitv Total

2008-09 61 155 58 472 159 173 657

2009-10 50 167 66 432 115 155 586

2008-09 0.4% 1.0% 0.4% 3.0% 1.0% 1.1% 4.2%

2009-10 0.3% 1.1% 0.4% 2.9% 0.8% 1.0% 3.9%

497 714 12568 0 2474

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462 707

3.1% 4.7% 81.7% 0.1% 15.3%

3.2%

4.6% 81.0% 0.0% 15.9%

12294 10 2308

ETC Numbers of students on DPG 18 (Special Programmes) courses

Student headcount DPG18 %age 0809 2.7% 40.9% 11.2% 2.5% 2.2% 9.9% 9.3% 1.0% siqhted No known disability MissinQ Disability Total 2.7% 17.5% 0.0% 80.0% DPG18 %age 0910 2.5% 41.3% 8.8% 2.3% 2.3% 12.6% 8.4% 1.1% 2.4% 18.4% 0.0% 79.3%

Dyslexia Other (main Iv learninq difficulties) Unseen disability, eg diabetes, epilepsy, asthma Information refused/not known Mental health difficulties Multiple Disabilities Wheelchair user/have mobility difficulties Deaf Blind/oartiallv

partners (e.g. ENABLE) to scrutinise and help inform our Equality and Diversity policy. We are always keen to hear about new opportunities to work with partners to enhance what we do, and would be interested to hear more about your thoughts on a Disability Champion for the College. I hope this information answers the questions you had, but please get in touch if you wish further information.

Yours sincerely

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MILES DIBSDALL aBE Principal and Chief Executive

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17 June 2011 Kezia Dugdal MSP The Scottish Parliament EDINBURGH EH991SP

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Dear Ms Dugdale Thank you for you"r letter of 9 June enquiring about our access and provisions for students with disabilities. Firstly, to answer your question on the percentage that students with disabilities make up, as a percentage of the total student population, I enclose some statistics from the last 2 cycles which I hope provides the kind of information you are seeking. Within the category of disability enrolments we find through analysis that most of our students will have learning difficulties, e.g. dyslexia, and that the remainder have learning disabilities. The way we and other colleges are funded by the Scottish Funding Council provides discrete funding for all categories of disability. This allows us to offer both discrete courses or to provide support for disability on mainstream programmes. The college has been located in a purpose built campus since 2006 and as such was certificated as DDA compliant. Regarding physical access, we continue to equality impact assess as part of estates management and facility enhancement processes. We are not aware of any physical adaptation requests that have been prohibitive cost-wise or alternative arrangements that have been made. We work in partnership with the local authority and NHS to plan, for example, for personal care equipment needs for students on our programmes. The reference we use for partnership working is available from the Scottish Government website http://www .scotland. gov. uk/Publications/Recent We have a structure within the College that builds champions for all strands of equality: we have a Diversity and Equality Steering group to review and plan how the College responds to legislation and ethos and values, equality training for staff and students and within our Learner Services Team, a strong equality ethos and staff trained in and supporting disability access in our programmes. We also have an Edinburgh Colleges Equality panel. In partnership with Jewel and Esk and Stevenson colleges we meet with external organisations as part of our involvement activity; there is a panel meeting this week with a facilitator to discuss the implications of the new Equality Act for colleges with our partners, including members of Disability organisations. We have always engaged with relevant

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