Removing Barriers and Creating Opportunities

Call for Written Evidence by the Equal Opportunities Committee

The Equal Opportunities Committee is currently undertaking a major inquiry into the barriers facing disabled people in their everyday lives. You can find out more about the inquiry by going to the Inquiry home page.

The Committee is inviting interested parties to submit their views on the barriers faced by disabled people in the following three key areas of their lives:

• access to employment;
• access to further and higher education; and
• access to leisure and cultural activities.

The Committee wants to hear from disabled people, services providers, employers, voluntary organisations and anyone else with relevant views on what barriers are faced by people accessing or providing services to disabled people.

In order to help those who wish to submit evidence there is a response form for you to complete and return online.

Written evidence can also be submitted by e-mail to:

[email protected]

or on computer disk in Word format or plain text. If you do not have access to a computer please send your evidence in hard copy or audio tape format to the following address:

Equal Opportunities Committee
Room T3.40
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP

Please send us your evidence by Friday 22 July 2005 at the latest.

The Committee normally publishes inquiry evidence. If you do not wish your evidence to be made public please mark it clearly with the word PRIVATE. All responses will be circulated to the Committee members.

If you need this information in an alternative format, please contact:

Roy McMahon at the above address, or:
Telephone: 0131 348 5213 - RNID Typetalk calls welcome
Fax: 0131 348 5600
[email protected]