Resources

Equality Advisory Support Service

The Government has commissioned a new Equality Advisory Support Service| (EASS) to replace the EHRC Helpline.

The contact numbers for the new service are:

Phone: 0808 800 0082
Textphone: 0808 800 0084

Opening hours:
09:00 to 20:00 Monday to Friday
10:00 to 14:00 Saturday

All of the Helpline’s EA publications, as well as Codes of Practice, are available on the Equality and Human Rights Commission| website.

At LSE

• Disability and Well-being service

Other useful links

There are also a number of non profit organisations which can offer advice:

• EmployAbility (specialist organisation working with disabled students and graduates)
• Disability Rights UK (includes a useful careers guide)
• RADAR (disability rights organisation)
• Leonard Cheshire Disability (the UK's leading charity supporting disabled people)
• Great with disability
• Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
• Action on Hearing Loss (formerly Royal National Institute for Deaf People)
• SCOPE (for people with cerebral palsy)
• MENCAP (for people with learning disabilities)
• MIND (for people with mental illness)
• British Dyslexia Association
• The Dyspraxia Foundation
• Narcolepsy Association