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Courses for advisors, advocates and campaigners
Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance: Guide to Successful Claims
and more....
Further information: Courses for advisors, advocates and campaigners
From: Disability Law Service
Date added: 02/09/2010
Are you involved in improving health and social care ? Do you claim benefits ?
Some organisations take great care to ensure your benefits are not affected by involvement.
Further information: Are you involved in improving health and social care ? Do you claim benefits ?
Date added: 19/08/2010
User-Driven Social Enterprise:What does it mean in practice?
Nigel Fenner is manager of Hertfordshire PASS, a „user-driven charity using
employment and self-directed support to enable disabled people to live more
independently‟.
Further information: User-Driven Social Enterprise:What does it mean in practice?
Date added: 16/08/2010
Equality Act Guidance 2010
A new Equality Act comes into force from October 2010. We have created a series of guidance documents to help explain the Act and provide practical examples on how the law has changed.
Further information: Equality Act Guidance 2010
Date added: 02/08/2010
Closing the Gap: changing the lives with assistive technology
Founded over 25 years ago by Budd and Dolores Hagen, parents of a child with a disability, Closing The Gap strives to provide parents and educators alike, the information and training necessary to locate, compare, and implement assistive technology.
Further information: Closing the Gap: changing the lives with assistive technology
Date added: 12/07/2010
New SCIE guidance will help commissioners to support user-led organisations
SCIE has launched a new interactive online guide to support commissioners in developing strong and sustainable user-led organisations (ULOs).
Further information: New SCIE guidance will help commissioners to support user-led organisations
From: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
Date added: 08/07/2010
United Kingdom Disabled Peoples Council MANIFESTO 2010
This manifesto sets out the demands and important issues that United Kingdom's Disabled People's Council (UKDPC) see as essential for justice and rights for disabled people in 2010.
Further information: United Kingdom Disabled Peoples Council MANIFESTO 2010
From: UK Disabled Peoples Council
Date added: 06/07/2010
Have your say on our new website ‘All about Equipment'
We have recently launched a new website guide to equipment for the public called All about Equipment. The aim of the website is to help people find the advice and information they need about all aspects of equipment for independent living.
Further information: Have your say on our new website ‘All about Equipment'
Date added: 06/07/2010
The DEN
The Den, a fantastic new website produced by the Autism Education Trust.
Further information: The DEN
Date added: 16/06/2010
Making disability information across Surrey accessible to individuals from Black & Minority Ethnic groups
This is a PDF file
Further information: Making disability information across Surrey accessible to individuals from Black & Minority Ethnic groups
From: Ask SID
Date added: 24/05/2010
Turn 2 Us
Turn2us exists to help people access the money available to them – through benefits, grants and other financial help.
Further information: Turn 2 Us
Date added: 28/04/2010
The NHS belongs to us all
The NHS is there for us from the moment we are born. It takes care of us and our family members when we need it most.
Further information: The NHS belongs to us all
Date added: 31/03/2010
Welcome to Walks with Wheelchairs.
...the only UK web-site totally dedicated to providing free information on routes that are suitable for wheelchair users throughout the UK.
Further information: Welcome to Walks with Wheelchairs.
Date added: 10/03/2010
Pilotlight offers DPOs free capacity building support.
Disability LIB is partnering with the charity Pilotlight to help DPOs build their capacity for strategic planning and long-term sustainability.
Further information: Pilotlight offers DPOs free capacity building support.
Date added: 08/03/2010
Help us and earn extra cash .AbilityNet
Do you live in Greater London or Greater Manchester and can you travel into our labs during week days or week day evenings?
Further information: Help us and earn extra cash .AbilityNet
Date added: 02/03/2010
Talk to Assist UK AGM,
An address by Mark Shrimpton, RADAR's joint deputy CEO, to the Assist UK AGM on involving disabled people in the delivery of goods and services
Further information: Talk to Assist UK AGM,
From: RADAR (The Royal Association For Disability And Rehabilitation)
Date added: 17/02/2010
World Deaf Information Resource Project
A new project has been developed to provide information on deaf organizations and schools in 149 countries.
Further information: World Deaf Information Resource Project
Date added: 09/11/2009
The Art Lovers' Guide for People with Learning Difficulties
New guide to help make galleries and museums more inclusive for people with a learning difficulty.
Further information: The Art Lovers' Guide for People with Learning Difficulties
Date added: 04/11/2009
Easy read version of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
This paper is an EasyRead guide to the full
agreement. It is not a legal paper. You need to
look at the full agreement itself if you want to
know what exactly the agreement says, or what
countries have signed up to.
Further information: Easy read version of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
Date added: 07/10/2009
The New Disability Lib Website
We are pleased to welcome you to our new website! It features a lot of new and exciting things like social networking and blogs and events calendars.
Further information: The New Disability Lib Website
Date added: 29/09/2009
Social Work Education Participation (SWEP) website
The new Social Work Education Participation (SWEP) website can help organisations to support service users and carers to participate in social work education programmes.
Further information: Social Work Education Participation (SWEP) website
Date added: 28/09/2009
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