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SDEF Newsletter No.5 - June 2002 |
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Welcome
to this fifth edition of SDEF News, available free to all members and
associate members of SDEF. We
will keep you up to date on our own activities and relevant events and
publications in the field of disability.
If you would like your work publicised in future editions, or would
like to tell us about something new, please contact us at the address below.
This
newsletter is available by email, on disc or in other formats if preferred.
Please contact us to let us know how you would like to receive it.
Please
note that SDEF is moving premises on 24.6.02.
From that date our address will be:
Mansfield
Traquair Centre
Please
amend your records.
Scottish Executive News
Free
Personal Care Information Campaign (28/04/02):
A
new public information campaign, giving details of what free personal and
nursing care will mean has been launched.
A
Guide To Receiving Direct Payments (30/04/02):
The
guide offers advice who are thinking about or who are already
department.
Scottish
Executive Consultations
Scottish
Executive Consultation On Draft Guidance And Regulations On Accessibility
Strategies (30/04/02):http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/education/secs-00.asp
Strategies
are to be prepared under the Education (Disability Strategies and Pupils'
Educational Records) Bill. The
consultation falls into three parts:
Part
I —
draft guidance on accessibility strategies
Responses
to this consultation should be sent by Friday 9 August 2002 at the
latest to:
Samantha
Baker
Area
3B (North), Victoria Quay
EDINBURGH
EH6
6QQ [email protected]
You
can also request electronic or hard copies of this paper by calling 0131 244
7139.
VITAL
VOICES Helping Vulnerable Witnesses Give Evidence:Consultation
ends 31st July 2002
Executive
Summary:
News
from the UK Government/Europe
Disabled
Persons Transport Advisory Committee: Annual Report -
2001 (published 23/05/02):
'NetWORKING For Inclusion': Brussels,
May 17, 2002. A major two-day conference in Spain entitled 'NetWORKING for
Inclusion' looked at ways to maximize the impact of the Community's EQUAL
initiative and so ensure vulnerable groups are not elbowed out of the labour
market.
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European Year Of People With Disabilities, 2003: Brussels,
May 23 2002. Preparations for the European Year of People with Disabilities,
2003, are now well under way across the Member States. ESmail is delighted
to give all its readers the chance to vote online for their favourite logo
to symbolize the year.
News
from the Disability Movement
Dear
Editor
anAurora
The Internet Magazine for the disAble Woman the dis is small it's the
Ability that counts.
anAurora
is an internet magazine run by and for disabled women it features articles
on arts poetry beauty fashion fiction food and drink garden and home health
and wellbeing quiz it also has a section for and by children. I
do hope you will consider looking at us.
Regards, Heather Macdonald
It's
In Your Eyes (29/04/02):
Scotland
is to launch the world's first programme to screen the eyes of every person
with diabetes in the country.
Free
Bus Impasse (25/04/02):
Thousands
of elderly and disabled passengers will find it 'almost
Excellent
Investigative Journalism Wins Mind Journalist Of The Year Award (21/05/02):Sarah
Boseley ........for her "excellent investigative journalism" into
the psychiatric drug industry.
Launch
Of A New Website www.togetheritworks.org.uk:
News
from the DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
Disability
Rights Commission Calls For Radical Shake-Up Of Legislation (20/05/02):
Major
changes to the law are needed so that disabled people can access public
transport and enjoy equal employment rights says the Disability Rights
Commission (DRC). At the start of a consultation on its first major review
of disability legislation, the DRC says that many disabled people still do
not have the right to get on a plane, or onto a train or have effective
rights in the workplace.
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