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  • Myth Buster On Personal Assistance

    Myth Buster On Personal Assistance

    05 July 2023

    Many disabled people need personal assistance to ensure they live their lives to as full an extent as possible – but there are many myths and mistruths about this which an independent living organisation is now attempting to dispel in a new Myth Buster document. The European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) is a user-led network of disabled people, with members throughout Europe.

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  • Petition to End Institutionalisation

    Petition to End Institutionalisation

    07 December 2021

    On the International Day of Disabled People the European Network on Independent Living ( ENIL )launched a petition for members of the public to sign, with a hope to attract the attention of policy and decision makers at both national and European levels. It makes a series of demands, such as the closure of institutions for disabled people across Europe, to enable disabled people to live independently and with dignity.

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  • European Network on Independent Living (ENIL)

    19 February 2019

    There’s more to Europe than Brexit! The European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) is a Europe-wide network offering a forum for all disabled people, independent living organisations and their non-disabled allies on the issues of independent living.

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  • Alice's Blog from Strasbourg

    05 July 2018

    In this guest blog Alice, one of Disability Sheffield’s Advocacy Workers, shares her experience of a recent training course that she attended in Strasbourg France, entitled ‘Active citizenship and political participation of young disabled people as a pathway towards Independent Living’.

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