RADAR - the disability network

Here you will find regularly up-dated coverage, comment and analysis from RADAR of disability-related political and social issues, RADAR events and other aspects of RADAR's work. We hope this will provide a discussion forum for people with an interest in disability, human rights and society, whatever their personal experience of impairment. Please check out the blog at http://radarnetwork.blogspot.com/. Comments on posts and suggestions for links and topics are always welcome.

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20/01/2010 - Pre-Employment Health Checks: An Injustice Living on Borrowed Time?

Pre-Employment Health Checks are one of the biggest barriers to people with injury, ill-health or disability gaining employment, enabling those employers with exaggerated fears of disability (epescially mental health conditions, or other stigmatised conditions such as HIV) to weed out candidates viewed as somehow risky. Following the recent amendments to the Equality Bill in the House of Lords which will ban Pre-Employment Health Checks, we examine the impact of these health checks on the people who face them.