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Blog Archive
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General Election : Important Voting Deadlines.
06 June 2024
Polling stations will be open from 7am to 10pm when we vote for our next government on Thursday 4 July. Local authorities have to ensure that the voting experience is accessible for everyone and we’re making you aware of important reminders and deadline dates in June that may affect you, if you wish to cast your vote, perhaps in an alternative way.
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Sheffield Voices Big Voice on Access
25 April 2024
Our Sheffield Voices self advocacy group would like to invite you to their next Big Voice Conference on June 21st from 10am – 3pm at Sheffield Town Hall . The main theme for this conference is Access. This event is for people with a learning disability and Autistic people living in the Sheffield area and we also welcome service representatives.
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Accessible Information Standard Review
11 March 2023
Disability Rights UK is among a group of disability and accessibility organisations who have written a letter to NHS England to express disappointment at the lack of progress in reviewing the legally-binding Accessible Information Standard, saying people’s health and wellbeing have been put at direct risk from not receiving information in a way they can understand.
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Sheffield Failing to Plan for Accessible Homes
09 January 2023
A failure to plan for fully accessible homes has been uncovered by BBC Freedom of Information requests to hundreds of local councils, underscoring what the Equality and Human Rights Commission has called a ““hidden crisis” in housing for disabled. Cities such as Sheffield, Coventry and Bradford currently have no quotas.
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Let's Make Physical Activity More Accessible
17 June 2022
We’ve been speaking to people with autism, learning disabilities and severe mental health issues about what they need to feel safe, confident and positive in physical activity settings.If you work in a community organisation, leisure centre or run mainstream physical activities we’d love to welcome you to the project at our free event on Wednesday 20th July to share our findings and launch a new network to develop more accessible activities.
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Equal Access: Getting it Right for People with Disabilities
01 June 2022
Local authorities across England need to ensure disabled people are at the heart of how their services operate says the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman. His latest report shares the learning from his investigations to help councils, and other local services meet their legal duties to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to access their services, whatever their needs.
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Healthy Living : Carers Focus Group
23 April 2022
Our new ‘Healthy Living’ coproduction project aims to make Sheffield community based physical activity, exercise and health groups more accessible to people who are autistic, have a learning disability or live with severe mental ill health. As part of our research we are holding a focus group for carers ( including lunch ) on Tues 24th May 2022 from 10am to 12noon.
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Put Your Access and Support Needs In Profile
05 April 2022
It’s irritating sometimes having to repeat your access requirements to various organisations, only to find they’ve been forgotten about, or lost, or you’ve missed something. Shaping Our Lives, has set up a free tool – the My Involvement Profile – designed by its members to record access and support needs which can then be shared with organisations before events or when you get involved in things such as focus groups.
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Steering to Accessibility
09 February 2022
A recent success of the Disability Steering Group set up by Sheffield City Trust and Disability Sheffield has been the development of the SCT website. It’s now much easier to plan a visit and access information about accessible activities and venues at SCT on the new ‘Accessibility’ pages, thanks to the great contribution of members of the Disability Steering Group. Check out the new pages and comment or get involved.
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Free Taxi Provision to Access Vaccination Clinics
06 January 2022
Sheffield City Council is offering support to provide a taxi service to anyone unable to access their Covid jabs at a vaccination clinic because of transport difficulties, who otherwise could not or would not attend. Sheffield City Council will then receive an itemised bill of the trip and cover the cost. This arrangement is currently running until 31st March 2022. If you meet the criteria and have a disability we can help by arranging a taxi for you ( using a code provided by the council ) so just get in touch.
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