- Conference
- 2022 Police & Justice Service Group Conference
- Date
- 8 June 2022
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes and accepts that the social model of disability identifies that it is not an individual’s medical condition, but the attitudes of society that makes them disabled. The social model is a civil rights approach that suggests that if the workplace was set up in a way that was accessible for people with disabilities then they would not be excluded or restricted.
The police service has a strong tradition of leading the way in equalities and has been responsible for some notable innovation. With this mind conference calls upon the SGE to campaign to bring the social model of disability to all forces within England Scotland and Wales.
In achieving this aim conference instructs the SGE to:
1)Provide all Police branches with the definition of the social model of disability;
2)Encourage branches to contact their disabled members and discuss the model;
3)Encourage branches the raise the social model of disability with their own force;
4)Consider setting up a national focus group to identify best practice within policing that supports the social model of disability
5)Liaise with the disabled members self-organised group to seek advice and guidance in support of the campaign;
6)Report back to Police & Justice Conference 2022.