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Disabled counselling trainees are being blocked from qualifying because some professional bodies refuse online placements as a reasonable adjustment even when trainees are fully capable of practising safely and ethically online.

What makes this harder to justify is that some SCoPEd-aligned bodies do allow online placements as reasonable adjustments, while others don’t.

This isn’t about lowering standards. It’s about equal access to qualification and whether disabled trainees are being unfairly excluded from the profession.

If you’re a trainee, therapist, tutor, supervisor, placement provider, or disabled professional or anyone affected in our profession please read, sign and share:

https://openletter.earth/demanding-equality-for-disabled-counselling-trainees-376b2817

The profession needs to talk about this.

Disabled counselling trainees are being blocked from qualifying because some professional bodies refuse online placements as a reasonable adjustment even when trainees are fully capable of practising safely and ethically online.

What makes this harder to justify is that some SCoPEd-aligned bodies do allow online placements as reasonable adjustments, while others don’t.

This isn’t about lowering standards. It’s about equal access to qualification and whether disabled trainees are being unfairly excluded from the profession.

If you’re a trainee, therapist, tutor, supervisor, placement provider, or disabled professional or anyone affected in our profession please read, sign and share:

https://openletter.earth/demanding-equality-for-disabled-counselling-trainees-376b2817

The profession needs to talk about this

Disabled counselling trainees are being blocked from qualifying because some professional bodies refuse online placements as a reasonable adjustment even when trainees are fully capable of practising safely and ethically online.

What makes this harder to justify is that some SCoPEd-aligned bodies do allow online placements as reasonable adjustments, while others don’t.

This isn’t about lowering standards. It’s about equal access to qualification and whether disabled trainees are being unfairly excluded from the profession.

If you’re a trainee, therapist, tutor, supervisor, placement provider, or disabled professional or anyone affected in our profession please read, sign and share:

https://openletter.earth/demanding-equality-for-disabled-counselling-trainees-376b2817

The profession needs to talk about this.