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Enhanced Care Survey at STH
02 October 2025
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are looking at how they provide care on a ward to patients who need a member of staff to stay with them most or all of the time. If you or a friend/relative have received Enhanced Care at STH please consider giving your feedback.
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Make it Together
29 September 2025
Deaf and Disabled people are four times more likely to feel lonely than non-disabled people. Join ‘Make It Together’ – a relaxed, online ‘hangout’ for Deaf & Disabled people to get creative and chat about what’s getting in the way of joining activities that help us be in the community together.
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Big Voice on Keeping Safe and Well
23 September 2025
If you have a learning disability and/or autism we’d love you to join us at our next Sheffield Voices Big Voice event on Friday 10th October from 10am to 2pm at St Mary’s Church. This time we’re exploring what it means to be safe and well in Sheffield and we’ll also provide lunch!
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Paid Role at Independent Disability Advisory Panel
15 September 2025
The Department for Work and Pensions has launched an expression of interest application process to become a member of the new Independent Disability Advisory Panel. The Panel is part of the Government’s commitment to improving collaboration with Deaf and disabled people and people with long-term health conditions. The closing date is midnight Monday 29 September
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Justice For Hate Crime Victims Campaign
12 September 2025
Hate crime against disabled people is often not seen as a serious matter and so victims of it are often left without the perpetrators facing a reckoning through the law. Inclusion London has set up a new campaign called ‘Justice for Disabled Victims’, which is calling for changes in the law.
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Direct Payment Provider Forum
12 September 2025
Do you receive a Direct Payment? If so, there’s an opportunity to have your say on the subject in the city soon. Sheffield Town Hall will be hosting the first local Direct Payment Provider Forum on Monday 22nd September from 10am to 1pm in Reception Rooms A & B at Sheffield Town Hall. The Forum will bring together care and support providers, the Direct Payment team and people who use direct payments.
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LGBTQ+ Carer Needs
11 September 2025
Are you a member of the LGBTQ+ community and have experience of caring for a person with severe mental illness? Kings College London is funding research to better understand the experiences of informal/unpaid caregivers within the LGBTQ+ community. The research will provide a better understanding of support needs and offer guidance for systems and organisations working with LGBTQ+ carers.
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Call for PLACE Patient Assessors
11 September 2025
Could you be a volunteer PLACE Patient Assessor during September and October for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in clinical areas focusing on how well the environment meets people’s needs? Recent personal experience of in-patient care is useful though not essential. An information session will take place in the Boardroom in the Clocktower on Wednesday 17th September 2025 at 1pm.
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Quality Performance from our Advocacy Service
05 September 2025
We are very proud that Disability Sheffield Advocacy Service has been awarded the Advocacy Quality Performance Mark for a further 3 years from the National Development Team for Inclusion . It is the UK’s only independent quality performance mark for organisations offering independent advocacy; an essential service for people who need support to express their needs and have increased choice and control in their lives.
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Could you be a Disability Sheffield Trustee?
18 August 2025
We are seeking to appoint up to three new trustees to our Board, including to the key role of Treasurer.As a Disabled People’s User-Led Organisation (DPULO) we are very keen to hear from disabled applicants .LGBTQ+ and ethnically diverse communities are also currently under-represented on our board, similarly younger people, which we are also hoping to redress.Closing Date: 9am, 29 September
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