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� SDEF News� � Edition 5 - June 2002 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.
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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.
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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Scottish Executive Consultation On Draft Guidance And Regulations On Accessibility Strategies (30/04/02): http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/education/secs-00.asp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:
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Part
I � draft guidance on accessibility strategies
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Responses to this consultation
should be sent by Friday 9 August 2002 at the latest to:
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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