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  • Equipment and Adaptations Policy Survey

    Equipment and Adaptations Policy Survey

    07 January 2025

    Are you a Sheffield City Council Social Housing Tenant? Have you had your say on their new draft Equipment and Adaptations Policy? By completing their survey you will help the Council make sure that their policy is easy to understand. The survey closes on the 24th of January.

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  • The Big Public Transport Survey.

    The Big Public Transport Survey.

    28 November 2024

    People with a learning disability are being asked what they think about the public transport system and how it can be improved. Mencap has set up The Big Public Transport Survey to find out your views.

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  • Disability Hate Crime Research

    Disability Hate Crime Research

    24 September 2024

    United Response has partnered with the Motability Foundation on a research project, focusing specifically on the lived experience of disabled people who have been victims of disability hate crime on public transport. A team of disabled researchers has come together to create a first-of-its-kind survey to generate new insights into the issue.

    FULL ARTICLE

  • What are Your Active Travel Experiences ?

    What are Your Active Travel Experiences ?

    16 August 2024

    Sheffield City Council has an opportunity to secure funding for future schemes which will help make walking, wheeling and cycling in neighbourhoods safer and more attractive. By wheeling they mean using wheelchairs, mobility scooters or buggies. They want to better understand the challenges you face. If you can help by giving your views please do so but please note the closing date is 26th August.

    FULL ARTICLE

  • Do Sheffield Hospitals Communicate Well?

    Do Sheffield Hospitals Communicate Well?

    19 July 2024

    Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are collecting views from their patients and local communities about how they communicate with patients. How would you like to receive information, how easy is it to understand and how can the ways they communicate with you be improved?

    FULL ARTICLE

  • Type 2 Diabetes Survey

    Type 2 Diabetes Survey

    28 June 2024

    Do you live in South Yorkshire, are between 16-39 years old, and have Type 2 Diabetes? Share your experience on the best way to promote information relating to Type 2 Diabetes and be in with a chance of winning £100 in shopping vouchers.

    FULL ARTICLE

  • National Survey of Care Workers

    National Survey of Care Workers

    21 August 2023

    People working across adult social care are being encouraged to complete a new national Government survey which aims, for the first time, to capture the experiences of those working in adult social care, to support improvements over time. The survey is open to people working in any care-related role across all settings in adult social care, including personal assistants and employees in local authority adult social care departments.

    FULL ARTICLE

  • Housing Ombudsman Calls for Evidence

    Housing Ombudsman Calls for Evidence

    26 July 2023

    The Housing Ombudsman is urging the social housing sector to get to grips with social injustices as many of their cases show a failure to fulfil obligations around human rights, including the Equality Act or to adhere to vulnerable persons policy. You can give your views in their survey calling for evidence which closes on 3 August 2023.

    FULL ARTICLE

  • Workplace Adjustments Survey Results

    Workplace Adjustments Survey Results

    20 June 2023

    Workplaces are still not as inclusive for disabled people as they need to be and employees are still waiting too long for the adjustments they need to reduce or remove the barriers they experience in their jobs, a new survey by the Business Disability Forum shows.

    FULL ARTICLE

  • Disability and Activity Survey

    Disability and Activity Survey

    15 June 2023

    The Activity Alliance, a national charity and leading voice for disabled people in sport and activity, reveals a growing need to reduce disabled people’s cost of living and loneliness in their ‘Disability and Activity’ annual survey results.

    FULL ARTICLE
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