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  • Poorest Hardest Hit by Austerity

    29 November 2017

    The poorest in society, including disabled people,are being hit the hardest by changes to tax, social security and public spending reforms, and are set to lose 10 per cent of their income, a new report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has revealed.

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  • Like to take part in the Community Equipment User Group?

    29 November 2017

    The Community Equipment Service (CES) in Sheffield is delivered by the British Red Cross who deliver thousands of pieces of equipment every month to people of all ages across the city. The service would like to set up an Equipment User Group to help with reviewing customer feedback and to improve the service. If you can help they’d love to hear from you.

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  • UNITE Magazine - Claim Your First Free Copy

    29 November 2017

    UNITE is a new magazine highlighting the issues of inequality that unfortunately still exist in our society, challenge the problems and ask for answers. Its aim is to give disabled people a platform to have their voices heard.

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  • Sheffield IAPT Health and Wellbeing Service

    24 November 2017

    Sheffield IAPT has launched a new service to help you to ‘live well’ with your health condition and improve your wellbeing through a range of free living well courses, one to one sessions or online therapy. Many of the sessions start in the New Year but are ongoing throughout the year.

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  • Social Prescribing for Free Conflict Mediation

    16 November 2017

    Social prescribing is a way of linking patients in primary care with sources of support within the community – usually provided by the voluntary and community sector, offering GPs a non-medical referral option that can operate alongside existing treatments to improve health and wellbeing. Sheffield MESH is offering free mediation for people with health problems caused by conflict in their community or interpersonal relationships.

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  • Help the Home Office to Test their new Digital Service

    15 November 2017

    The Home Office in Sheffield is looking for disabled people to trial a new digital service we have designed. We are offering £40 of shopping vouchers, per hour, as a way of saying thank you for your help.The trial will start from the end of November.

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  • Sheffield Equality Hub Newsletter for November

    06 November 2017

    Catch up with all the latest news and events this month in the Sheffield Equality Hub newsletter.

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  • Making Visits Matter : Unison Report

    31 October 2017

    Read the results of Unison’s survey of 1,000 home care workers showing how they try to do their best within a system that increasingly prioritises “quotas over compassion”.

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  • Clinical Commissioning Group - Giving Voice to Seldom Heard Groups

    31 October 2017

    South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation has been commissioned by the Clinical Commissioning Group to give a voice to seldom heard groups across South Yorkshire regarding five NHS provisions:Urgent care; Maternity;Unwell Children;Strokes ;Gastroenterology. Find out how to give your views in various ways.

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  • Your Second Favourite Disability Blog

    25 October 2017

    As part of our continuing effort to introduce you to your second favourite disability blog (after ours of course,) we’re taking a look at The Purple Space blog featuring stores about disability confidence at work.

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