{"id":216,"date":"2014-02-18T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalnext.me\/nccblog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:22:21","slug":"international-day-persons-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/international-day-persons-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Persons with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Day of Persons with Disabilities held on the 3rd December 2011 aims to raise awareness of the problems persons with disabilities faced with in their everyday lives.<!--more--> It is estimated that individuals with disabilities make up 10% of the world population and 80% of these live in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>However, even where disability laws are in place, their effectiveness can be held back by negative attitudes and stereotypes towards disabled persons.<\/p>\n<p>Because so many types of disabilities exist, understanding them all individually can be a difficult task\u2026but here is your chance to learn more!<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to help raise disability awareness you could train to deliver seminars in this area with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NCC Home Learning\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/traininganddevelopmentdiploma-product-327.html\">Disability Awareness Training and Development Diploma<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively you could further your knowledge of Equality and Diversity which is an important aspect of many areas of employment with our home study <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/equality-and-diversity-certificate-rqf.html\">Equality and Diversity QCF Certificate<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about International Day of Persons with Disabilities <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/disabilitiesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Day of Persons with Disabilities held on the 3rd December 2011 aims to raise awareness of the problems persons with disabilities faced with in their everyday lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/featured-image-test-1.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Nick Cooper","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/author\/nccnickcooper\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38218,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/38218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}