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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.

Forum Update

Please note that SDEF is moving premises on 24.6.02. From that date our address will be:

Mansfield Traquair Centre

15 Mansfield Place

Edinburgh EH3 6BB

Telephone number will remain 0131 556 3882

Email will remain [email protected]

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.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/pages/news/2002/04/SEHD030.aspx

A Guide To Receiving Direct Payments (30/04/02):

The guide offers advice who are thinking about or who are already

getting direct payments from their local authority social work

department.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/health/grdp-00.asp

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Scottish Executive Consultation On Draft Guidance And Regulations On Accessibility Strategies (30/04/02):http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/education/secs-00.asp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Part I — draft guidance on accessibility strategies
Part II — draft Education (Disability Strategies) Regulations
Part III — the text of the Education (Disability Strategies and Pupils' Educational Records) Bill, as passed by the Scottish Parliament, for ease of reference

Responses to this consultation should be sent by Friday 9 August 2002 at the latest to:

Samantha Baker
Scottish Executive Special Educational Needs Unit

Area 3B (North), Victoria Quay

EDINBURGH

EH6 6QQ

[email protected]
Fax: 0131 244 7943

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

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/justice/hvwm-00.asp

Executive Summary:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/justice/hvws-00.asp

News from the UK Government/Europe

Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee: Annual Report - 2001 (published 23/05/02):

http://www.dptac.gov.uk/01report/index.htm

'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.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2002/may/101_en

.html

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.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2002/may/102_en.html

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

www.anAurora.co.uk
The Internet Magazine for the disAble Woman

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.

http://www.youreable.com/TwoShare/getPage/01News/01Current/03-05-2002/ Its%20in%20your%20eyes

Free Bus Impasse (25/04/02):

Thousands of elderly and disabled passengers will find it 'almost

impossible' to access new free bus services in Edinburgh, according to a report.

http://www.youreable.com/TwoShare/getPage/01News/01Current/26-04-2002/ Free%20bus%20impasse

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.

http://www.mind.org.uk/press-room/press_page.asp?ID=188

Launch Of A New Website www.togetheritworks.org.uk:

The first site ever to be presented in British Sign Language, designed to provide deaf and hard of hearing people with targeted IT training and employment.

http://www.rnid.org.uk/html/news_media_detail.asp?ID=382

http://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.

http://www.drc-gb.org/drc/InformationAndLegislation/NewsRelease_020520.asp

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