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To: Minister for Disabled People - Justin Tomlinson MP
Getting the right support in place for disabled students before they START a university course
To make sure disabled student have the right support in place before STARTING a degree course.
Why is this important?
A lot of disabled students get support at university for all different reasons whether it be physical, mental health or a learning need but unfortunately what often happens is that students don't receive this support until they are 6 months or even in some case a year into their first year of study.
As you can imagine this can be very stressful, upsetting and can have a massive impact on the student and their ability to do the degree.
Must people just get on with studying, while others who can't do anything without the support have to catch up once the support is approved and put in place.
Unfortunately this has happened to me this year. It is now the end of January and I still haven’t got all the support in place need in order for me to even start studying. So it looks like I’m going to have to catch up on all my work between now and May 2016.
Every person I have spoken that has applied for disability support has also not received a mentor, equipment or maybe a tutor that they need to study until after they have started their degree course.
It’s amazing we have a society that supports people with different needs but unless this issue changes people with a disability will struggle to complete a degree course.
Please join me in getting Justin Tomlinson to change the time scales and deadlines for disabled support allowance, student finance and make sure people receive and are set up for study before they even start their degree course.
As you can imagine this can be very stressful, upsetting and can have a massive impact on the student and their ability to do the degree.
Must people just get on with studying, while others who can't do anything without the support have to catch up once the support is approved and put in place.
Unfortunately this has happened to me this year. It is now the end of January and I still haven’t got all the support in place need in order for me to even start studying. So it looks like I’m going to have to catch up on all my work between now and May 2016.
Every person I have spoken that has applied for disability support has also not received a mentor, equipment or maybe a tutor that they need to study until after they have started their degree course.
It’s amazing we have a society that supports people with different needs but unless this issue changes people with a disability will struggle to complete a degree course.
Please join me in getting Justin Tomlinson to change the time scales and deadlines for disabled support allowance, student finance and make sure people receive and are set up for study before they even start their degree course.
