The Workplace Law Network has reported on minor changes to disability discrimination legislation affecting people who take exams.
The Disability Discrimination (General Qualifications Bodies)(Relevant Qualifications, Reasonable Steps and Physical Features)(Amendment) Regulations 2008 are to be brought in on 24 October 2008, and say that:
“It is always a reasonable step for a general qualifications body to assess a disabled candidate in relation to the components of an examination taken by that candidate as if those components comprised the entire examination.”
These Regulations amend the 2007 Regulations, which stated that in order to prevent a provision, criterion or practice placing a disabled person at a substantial disadvantage, the granting of an exemption from one or more of the components of any examination or assessment shall be a step which it is always reasonable for a general qualifications body to have to take.
