Webinar: Disability Hate Crime

The ‘Hate Crime in Scotland, 2020-21’ report indicates that there has been an increase in the number of charges reported in 2020-21 compared to 2019-20 for all categories of hate crime. The number of hate crimes relating to disability had increased by 14% to 448. This is the highest number of charges reported since the legislation creating this aggravation came into force in 2010, and the report estimates that around 97% of disability hate crime goes unreported.

Disability Equality Scotland polled its members on how confident they would feel to report a hate crime. Over half of the respondents (52%) stated that they would not feel confident to make a report of disability hate crime.

The webinar was recorded live on Tuesday 12 October 2021 from 1:30pm to 3:00pm, and was supported by captioning, as well as British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters. BSL support was provided live by Sign Language Interactions and BSL Communications Services

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