Promoting choice, control and independence
for disabled people in Sheffield
Blog Archive
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Mad Hatter's Party Was Topper Class Entertainment
29 May 2019
Natalie Yarrow, Disability Sheffield’s Vice Chairperson would like to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of Sunday’s event at The Barrel in Chapeltown – “ to the brilliant landlady Steph Tate and her fabulous team, the Alice in Wonderland characters and an assortment of stallholders, our amazing volunteers, staff members and trustees, all of whom helped to raise the profile of Disability Sheffield whilst generating much-appreciated funds. Not forgetting The Barrel’s customers too, thank you for your support; now you know who we are maybe we can be of service to you or someone you know!”
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Workplace Personal Assistants Policy
28 May 2019
Disability Sheffield has been working in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University and University of York to continue the development of their research project, Workplace Personal Assistants (WPA). We are keen to work with employers to develop a policy/guidance that can be adapted for each workplace and easily adopted by businesses to ensure that all aspects of having WPAs are considered.
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Pavement Parking Inquiry
22 May 2019
Disability Sheffield and the Disability Hub together with the Access Liaison Group have put together a response to the Transport Committee Pavement Parking Inquiry highlighting pavement parking as a seriously dangerous issue for wheelchair users, people with mobility impairments, blind people and people with sensory impairments or any pavement user forced to leave the pavement and use the public highway, which poses obvious risks.
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Social Care Crisis and Independent Living Threat
22 May 2019
This month we see a little more movement on the government’s promised green paper on social care. It has taken from as far back as March 2017, when the Government said that it would publish a Green Paper on social care. Here we provide an update and link on the ‘forthcoming’ Green Paper on social care for adults, which we understand will now be published at “the earliest opportunity”.
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Movement for Good Awards : Help Us to Tackle Hate Crime
09 May 2019
Please consider nominating us for the Movement for Good Awards.Your nomination could be the one that helps us win £1000 to enable our Sheffield Voices Group to work with other learning disability groups to deliver disability discrimination and hate crime training.The more nominations we get, the greater our chance of winning, so please spread the word. The closing date for nominations is Friday 17 May. Thanks so much for your support!
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Sheffield Cycling 4 All Gets New Bikes Boost
07 May 2019
Sheffield Cycling 4 All are riding high and would like to say a massive thank you to HTK podcast listeners, who raised almost £2000 to buy four additional bikes and a specialist tricycle for Disability Sheffield’s accessible cycling project.
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Join Us at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party
02 April 2019
We’re grateful to The Barrel pub in Chapeltown who will be hosting a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party to raise money for Disability Sheffield on Sunday May 26th, from noon till 4pm. We hope you can come along and we’d love to hear from you if you’re willing to volunteer to support us by helping out on the afternoon with fundraising activities such as hosting fete type games and manning our information stand.
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Disability Hub Meeting
01 April 2019
The next meeting of the Disability Hub is on Thursday 4 April 2019 from 2-4pm at The Circle. The Hub is one of the ways in which disabled people can have a greater say on the services and businesses disabled people interact with locally.
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How Disability Sheffield Can Open Doors and Opportunities for your Business
07 March 2019
We’re working with businesses to help them improve their accessibility with the aim of Sheffield becoming a more inclusive city. We offer Disability Equality Training, Access Audits and support to be Disability Confident. If you run a business or organisation in Sheffield, then a workplace Access Audit and review of disability policies could open opportunities for you to a have a truly diverse and talented workforce. Let’s make sure the disability employment gap doesn’t get any bigger in our city.
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Human Rights Outrage of Mental Capacity Amendment Bill
11 February 2019
Disability Sheffield has joined with over one hundred social care sector organisations by signing an open letter to Ministers criticising the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill.The letter puts on public record serious concerns about the content, progress and passage of the Bill saying the reforms pose a real threat to the human rights of people requiring the greatest support in life.
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