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Help to Create a Fairer Benefits System
26 February 2025
Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is urging disabled people and organisations to take part in a survey and online focus groups in March. The Commission on Social Security, a group of people with lived experience of the benefits system are developing a proposal for an Additional Costs Disability Payment to replace Personal Independence Payment (PIP), aiming to create a fairer, more dignified, and supportive system.
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Help Shape Online Information for Palliative and End of Life Care
20 February 2025
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board are conducting a survey to understand how they should best provide information online about palliative and end of life care. Whether you are receiving care, supporting a loved one, or a carer, your thoughts and experiences can help to develop better online information that reflects people’s needs.
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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.
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
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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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