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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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  • Planning your Future - Next Meeting

    25 September 2017

    Do you have an interest in or experience of personal budgets and personal health budgets?Following on from our session at the beginning of September we would like to invite you to a 2nd session on Tuesday 24th October from 1.30 to 4pm.

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  • Free Training for Personal Assistants

    23 September 2017

    Disability Sheffield are running a number of FREE courses over the next 6 months for existing and aspiring Personal Assistants in partnership with Skills for Care and Sheffield City Council. Places are limited so book now to avoid disappointment.

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  • Disability Hub Meeting

    22 September 2017

    The next meeting of the Disability Hub is this coming Wednesday 27 September 2017. The meeting runs this time in the morning from 10.30 am until 1 pm, Ground Floor Conference Rooms, The Circle, Rockingham Lane. It will be an important meeting for the Disability Hub and hopefully you can come and join in with the discussions.

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  • Digital Technology Consultant Brief

    20 September 2017

    We are seeking expressions of interest from people with an understanding of digital technology and data-sharing to deliver a project on behalf of the Individual Employer and PA development group. Please submit your response by 9am on Thursday 28th Sept 2017.

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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.

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A fantastic presentation thought provoking and good questions from the floor around promoting this film/message to the general public not just professionals.
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Very good presentation, brave of the speakers to tell their stories and had a very high impact - feedback from Mate/Hate Crime presentation and video session at Safeguarding Working Together Conference
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Disability Sheffield is a forward-thinking, energetic organisation doing a lot of positive work in Sheffield. I have no doubt they will continue to do so for a long time to come.
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When I moved to Sheffield nearly five years ago it was my "go to" organisation. I expect it to stay that way. All the staff and volunteers seem to pull out little gems of effort that disabled people like me couldn't do without. Professionally and personally - I love em :)
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