Promoting choice, control and independence
for disabled people in Sheffield
Blog Archive
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Hate and Mate Crime Information Day
20 July 2016
Come along to Sheffield Moor Market on 11 August from 10am to 4pm to meet our learning disability group, Sheffield Voices , discuss our Hate and Mate Crime video, and find out about the Safe Places Scheme.
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Meet Disability Sheffield's New Advocacy Worker
20 June 2016
We’re proud to introduce you to the latest member of our Advocacy Team. Darren is profoundly deaf and his role will target advocacy support for deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Let’s Talk About Restraints Toolkit
11 June 2016
For the last two years we have been collaborating with Active Independence and the Individual Employer and PA Group to develop some useful downloadable resources that can be simply used by Individual Employers to train their own staff, any health and social care worker who works with disabled people and other interested parties. We have recently launched an online resource which has been funded by Skills for Care.
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APPG for Disability Inquiry into Halving the Disability Employment Gap
10 June 2016
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Disability invites written submissions to inform its inquiry into how the Government can fulfil its pledge to halve the disability employment gap. We would therefore like to ask disabled people to share their feelings and any personal stories of bearing the effects of unemployment or trying to stay in work. Please feel free to share them with us and let us know if you are happy to use them as examples in our response. We are happy to anonymise them if you would prefer.
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ROFA Conference 2016
09 June 2016
Disability Sheffield is delighted to announce, yet again, our co-hosting of the “Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance” on Thursday 14 July 10:30 am until 16:00 pm at Sheffield Town Hall .
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Is South Yorkshire Accessible for Disabled People?
14 April 2016
On a recent phone in on BBC Radio Sheffield on 4th April, Toby Foster asked one of the big questions for disabled people on access and whether South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire is accessible for disabled people. Disability Sheffield’s Andrew Crooks asked listeners how they would feel if they weren’t allowed outside of their house?
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Labour Leader Visits Disability Sheffield
04 April 2016
We were delighted to welcome Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn to our office on March 25th during his visit to Sheffield to support Labour’s candidate, Gill Furniss, in the upcoming Hillsborough and Brightside by-election.
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Disability Sheffield on Personal Independence Payment budget reaction on Radio Sheffield
18 March 2016
Listen to yesterday’s recording of Andrew Crooks talking on BBC Radio Sheffield about what the budget announcement meant to him and other disabled people in Sheffield. Andrew was quick to highlight that the proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) came on the back of some already tough measures affecting disabled people badly.
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Samantha's Story - An Introduction to Personal Health Budgets
14 March 2016
This short film, coproduced by Disability Sheffield, Sheffield Voices Learning Disability Self Advocacy Group and NHS England will help you to understand what personal health budgets are and how you might be able to start the process of getting one, if you have a learning disability.
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Ways You Can Support Disability Sheffield
10 February 2016
Disability Sheffield has gained a good reputation locally and nationally for the quality of our services and projects but we face challenging times in the year ahead. If you like what we do here’s some ways you can support our work. Whether you’re interested in volunteering at community events or have any ideas for fundraising , however unusual, different or wacky, we’d love to hear from you.
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