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  • Epilepsy Drug - Warning for Pregnant Women

    02 October 2017

    Almost 70% of women surveyed about a powerful epilepsy drug, Sodium valproate, known as Epilim, have not received new safety warnings about the dangers of taking it during pregnancy.

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  • Prove It, Fix It Campaign

    02 October 2017

    A Sheffield charity, Sparkle, has launched a campaign and petition to try and ensure autistic children get the right form of education, claiming that Sheffield City Council has been putting finances before needs.

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  • Southern Health NHS Trust Guilty Verdict

    27 September 2017

    After a 4 year justice campaign Southern Health Trust has finally pleaded guilty in court for its failings in the case of 18-year-old Connor, a patient under their care, who drowned in a bath while having an epileptic seizure at the now-closed Slade House in Oxford in 2013.

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  • Money Matters Project Research - Single Parent Women and Poverty

    26 September 2017

    Are you a disabled woman and a single parent? If so the Money Matters project would love to hear from you. They want to interview as many disabled women as possible, in confidence, about what it’s like to be a single parent with a disability and highlight possible solutions and coping mechanisms which might assist other women.

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  • Your Second Favourite Disability Blog!

    25 September 2017

    As part of our continuing campaign to bring you information on blogs that are nearly as interesting as ours, we bring you Curb Free With Cory Lee, which apart from rhyming nicely, shows that travel is still possible for wheelchair users.

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  • Paces Administration Worker Vacancy

    25 September 2017

    Paces has a vacancy for an Administration Worker working Monday, Thursday and Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm at £8.45 per hour.The closing date is Friday 13th October at 5pm.

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  • Free Development Workshop for Community Groups

    19 September 2017

    Want to grow your organisation? Come along to A FREE session with the VAS development team and SYFAB for small groups in Sheffield on Tuesday 3rd October 2017.

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  • Change Needed in Media Portrayal of Disabled People

    18 September 2017

    Calls are being made for change as disabled people say they don’t feel they are well represented in either broadcast or printed media. Essentialaids.com have created a colourful, thought-provoking campaign that helps represent disabled people and their mobility products in a fresh, exciting way. The campaign is hopefully helping to get others to rethink how disabled people are portrayed – or sometimes just being plain ignored.

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  • Test Bed Programme Announces New App

    14 September 2017

    The SOS UK app is being offered as a free download to the public and will contain details of medications, allergies and other information useful in an emergency.

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  • United Nations calls for Action on Rights for Disabled People in UK

    14 September 2017

    A UN committee has told the UK government to produce an annual progress report on how it is implementing the recommendations of a damning inquiry that found it guilty of “grave and systematic violations” of key parts of the disability convention.

    FULL ARTICLE
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