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Remembering Lennox Castle - Project Launch

24/02/2012 10:00
24/02/2012 15:30

 

'Remembering Lennox Castle’ is a chance for ex-residents to tell their stories of what life was like in the ‘Castle’ and their triumphs and successes since leaving.

The project will be run by C-Change and Project Ability and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

We would like to invite ex-residents, family members of ex-residents and Staff members who worked at Lennox castle to our Project launch day.

The launch day will take place on Friday 24th of February between 10am - 3:30pm at the base of Project Ability, Trongate 103, Glasgow G51 5HD.

Responsible Reform

The authors of a new report published on 9th January have studied the submissions to the DLA consultation and reveal evidence that the consultation for DLA did not meet the Government’s own Code of Practice. They also reveal that only 7% of the respondents to the consultation, supported it fully. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, produced one of over 450 responses, detailing objections to the proposed changes. Yet the government didn’t publish the submissions and went ahead any way.

Famous Disabled People & Inspirational Quotes

Famour disabled people and quotes

To mark the International Day of Disabled Persons 3rd December 2011, we wanted to share this inspirational video about successful disabled people and their famous quotes. 

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MESSAGE ON The International Day of Persons with Disabilities

03/12/2011 09:48

U N I T E D   N A T I O N S                            N A T I O N S   U N I E S

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

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MESSAGE ON The International Day

November 2011 Newsletter now uploaded!!

02/12/2011

Our November newsletter is now available to either download or read online. This edition carries stories about

  • Cardinal Keith O'Brien's, leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland's perspective on the UK Welfare Reforms
  • An inspiring article by Rich Donovan, a New York based disabled businessman on mining the disability market
  • A Guardian report on the sharp rise in demand for food handouts in the UK
  • Co-production explained by The Centre for Welfare Reform

plus much, much more!!

Charities Take The Campaign for a Fair Society To Holyrood

07/12/2011 13:15
07/12/2011 14:15

PRESS RELEASE

Major charities across Scotland including ENABLE Scotland and the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland will consult with MSP’s and senior figures on the draft UK manifesto of Campaign for a Fair Society on 7th December 2011 at Holyrood.

They say that many of society’s disabled people are being forced to shoulder far more than their fair share of the Government’s austerity burden.

LCiL Submission the Health and Sport Committee (Scottish Parliament)

28/11/2011

MSPs will soon be voting on a Legislative Consent Memorandum to decide whether to refuse legal consent to the Bill. To read the paper submitted by LCiL, please click on the attachment below:-

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Scottish Campaign for a Fair Society submits a paper to the United Nations' Human Rights Council

21/11/2011

The Scottish Campaign for a Fair Society’s coalition has submitted a paper to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. This is because they will do the second Universal Periodic Review of the United Kingdom(in 2012).

The Report is not available in easy read yet because we had to write it quickly. We hope to do an easy read version very soon.

Many thanks to Pauline Nolan from Inclusion Scotland for doing so much work so quickly.

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Scottish Parliament seeks your views on Welfare Reform

01/11/2011 17:30
01/11/2011 20:00

Are you concerned about the impact of the UK Welfare Reform Bill on the people and communities you work with? SCVO is facilitating an event with the Scottish Parliament for your organisation to provide input to the three Scottish Parliament committees that will be scrutinising the UK Welfare Reform Bill.
1 November, 5.30-8pm
Scottish Parliament

You must register with SCVO to attend this event. Please contact Felix Spittal on 01463 251 724 or email pon@scvo.org.uk.


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