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  • Free Health and Wellbeing Taster Sessions at Paces Sheffield

    20 June 2016

    Are you aged between 18 and 25? Do you have Cerebral Palsy or a similar condition? Then why not go along to try these free craft, baking and fitness taster sessions in August.

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  • 'Improving Access to Psychological Therapies' Re-launch their Website

    20 June 2016

    If you are one of the 1 in 4 people in the UK who experience a mental health problem each year, find out about the range of free and low cost therapies and other community resources available in Sheffield .

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  • Meet Disability Sheffield's New Advocacy Worker

    20 June 2016

    We’re proud to introduce you to the latest member of our Advocacy Team. Darren is profoundly deaf and his role will target advocacy support for deaf and hard of hearing people.

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  • PIP Fails People with Progressive Conditions

    16 June 2016

    The ‘Focus on Disability Benefits’ report, by Muscular Dystrophy UK, says welfare assessments are inadequate for people with progressive conditions and calls for an urgent rethink.

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  • Supreme Court Will Hear Bus Accessibility Case

    16 June 2016

    Doug Paulley’s bus accessibility case went to the Supreme Court on the 15th of June. The decision, due at the end of the month, could have wide implications for wheelchair and mobility scooter users who want to travel by bus in the UK.

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  • Fancy becoming a Broadcaster for Channel 4?

    16 June 2016

    The Channel’s Continuity Team is opening up the airwaves to alternative voices with a specific focus on disability. Could you be one of them?

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  • Dad Turns Disabled Daughter into Comic Book Hero

    16 June 2016

    KAPOW!!. Nine-year-old Emily is the superhero chief of the Department of Ability leading a gang of disabled superheroes whose disabilities become their super powers.

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  • Let’s Talk About Restraints Toolkit

    11 June 2016

    For the last two years we have been collaborating with Active Independence and the Individual Employer and PA Group to develop some useful downloadable resources that can be simply used by Individual Employers to train their own staff, any health and social care worker who works with disabled people and other interested parties. We have recently launched an online resource which has been funded by Skills for Care.

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  • APPG for Disability Inquiry into Halving the Disability Employment Gap

    10 June 2016

    The All Party Parliamentary Group for Disability invites written submissions to inform its inquiry into how the Government can fulfil its pledge to halve the disability employment gap. We would therefore like to ask disabled people to share their feelings and any personal stories of bearing the effects of unemployment or trying to stay in work. Please feel free to share them with us and let us know if you are happy to use them as examples in our response. We are happy to anonymise them if you would prefer.

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  • ROFA Conference 2016

    09 June 2016

    Disability Sheffield is delighted to announce, yet again, our co-hosting of the “Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance” on Thursday 14 July 10:30 am until 16:00 pm at Sheffield Town Hall .

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