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Blog Archive
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Local Area Committees Launch - Survey Seeking Disabled Peoples' Views
21 October 2021
Recently, the city council has launched the new Local Area Committees (LACs) and they are keen to hear your views on your local area. This will guide the work of these committees and it is important Disabled people have their say.The survey closes on Sunday 31st October.
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Sheffield Voices Shortlisted for Leaders Award
14 October 2021
Congratulations and Hoorah! Sheffield Voices has been nominated into the Learning Disability and Autism Leaders Award 2021 and are very happy to have been shortlisted. Sheffield Voices has been nominated for their outstanding work on raising awareness and challenging issues relating to bad practice and abuse of patients in inpatients units both in Sheffield and beyond.We hope Sheffield Voices will win!
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Weight For It...
05 October 2021
Our learning disability group, Sheffield Voices has secured funding from Zest to run a 10-month weight management course for a ‘lighter life’ for anyone with a learning disability or autism who has a BMI over 25. The group is meeting every Tuesday at Hillsborough Arena from 1-3pm to learn about healthy eating, learn from each other and have some fun doing dance, playing boccia, curling and some general exercise. Places are still available so do get in touch if you’d like to know more.
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Our Halo Code Commitment
17 September 2021
We are pleased to announce that Disability Sheffield has adopted the Halo Code to prevent race-based hair discrimination in our workplace. Race-based hair discrimination is where Black people are told their hair textures and hairstyles are inappropriate, unattractive, and unprofessional due to racist attitudes. We want to to ensure no members of our team, both employees and volunteers, are ever made to feel ashamed or excluded due to their hair.
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Is the Accessible Information Standard Working ?
13 September 2021
At Disability Sheffield in our latest video we’re asking people living in Sheffield How Accessible is Your GP’s Surgery? It’s very timely to release our video just as a coalition of charities, SignHealth , Sense, RAD, RNIB, LDEngland, Visionary, RNID and HealthWatch have come together to review how the Accessible Information Standard has impacted patient experiences, five years on from its implementation in 2016. Please complete their survey.
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Cawston Park Closure
10 September 2021
We are shocked and disgusted to hear of the deaths of Joanna, Ben and Nicholas and the appalling lack of ‘care’ they received at Cawston Park. How many more deaths? How many more closures? How many more reports and recommendations ? How many more years do we have to wait until the government acts to close private assessment and treatment units for people with learning disabilities, autism or mental health needs? We call on the government to act NOW.
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Video Advice For Clinically Vulnerable People
19 August 2021
We know that a lot of people who have been shielding are very anxious about opening up so we worked with Greg Fell, Director of Public Health at Sheffield City Council, to come up with some guidance both for shielders and also for the rest of society. We produced three videos that resulted from these conversations which are now joined together so you can watch them all in one go.
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Disability Equality Training from the Experts!
18 August 2021
Disability Sheffield and Sheffield Voices Learning Disability group offer a range of affordable training designed and delivered by people with a lived experience of disability. This is what makes our training unique and interesting. Our training can be bespoke to meet the needs of your team and can take place either online or face to face.
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Disabled People Reject New ‘tick box’ National Disability Strategy.
29 July 2021
The DPO Forum Engand , made up of Disabled Peoples Organisations, including Disability Sheffield, has issued a press release expressing outrage at the Government’s decision to go ahead with the launch of a national disability strategy saying that is not a strategy, does not address key problems, does not reflect the issues and priorities of Disabled people and was not developed with Disabled people organisations.
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SC4A Zoom on-line physical activity session host and promoter
28 July 2021
SC4A are recruiting to a new role of Zoom host and promoter.During Covid SC4A set up 4 inclusive online classes – Movement 4 All, Yoga 4 All, Boxing 4 All and Dance 4 All. The classes are led by professional instructors but we need someone to host the classes and do some additional online promotion work. You will need to be comfortable using zoom and social media and confident in your communication skills.We are looking for someone to work 7 hrs per week.The closing date is Monday 23 August.
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