Posted on Monday, September 4th, 2023
Disabled People’s Organisations have written to the First Minister ahead of the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government due out this week to ask him to take urgent action to tackle the poverty and inequalities which are blighting lives, eroding rights and…
Posted on Monday, September 4th, 2023
Up to 15 people from across Scotland are being sought to help shape the future of adult social care support in Scotland. The People-led Policy Panel project, a project run by Inclusion Scotland, is being funded by the Scottish Government…
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Posted on Monday, August 28th, 2023
Things are getting worse for disabled people in Scotland and across the UK. Read this scathing report by UK Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations evaluating the government’s performance seven years on from a United Nations finding of grave and systematic…
Posted on Thursday, August 10th, 2023
In this blog Bill Scott, Senior Policy Advisor and Heather Fisken, Head of Policy and Research at Inclusion Scotland write about the cost of living crisis and the devastating impact it’s having on disabled people in Scotland. When moving around…
Posted on Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
The cost of living crisis continues to take an unrelenting and horrific toll on disabled people, with many struggling to survive. This must not be allowed to become the ‘new normal’ and to fade from the headlines and the political…
Read More: Disabled People, Poverty and the Cost of Living Crisis – Briefing Update →
Posted on Friday, May 12th, 2023
From social care support and day centres to swimming pools and libraries, council services are a vital lifeline for many disabled people. However, we are aware of reports that council services used by disabled people are being cut. This is…
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Posted on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
Read our Conference Report ‘Stacked Against Us’ to learn more about disabled people’s experience of the cost-of-living crisis and what needs to be done about it. The rising costs of food and energy, the decreasing value of benefits, discrimination in…
Read More: Stacked Against Us: disabled people’s poverty and the cost-of-living crisis →
Posted on Monday, April 3rd, 2023
The UK Government’s Spring Budget (15th March 2023) included proposals to get rid of the Work Capability Assessment. But the proposals to replace it with the assessment used for Personal Independence Payment, or the Adult Disability Payment in Scotland, could…
Posted on Monday, March 27th, 2023
Image Credit: Different Minds. To mark World Autism Acceptance Week 2023 (27 March – 2 April), I’d like to explain why it helps if employers have an autism-friendly culture. And to signpost to some resources that indicate what an autism-friendly…
Read More: Working with autistic colleagues by a former WeCanWork Intern →
Posted on Friday, March 3rd, 2023
The Scottish Government recently published a consultation about the mobility component of Adult Disability Payment (ADP). The consultation asks questions about the mobility criteria and people’s experience of applying for, claiming and being transferred to ADP. Inclusion Scotland will be…
Read More: Adult Disability Payment – Have your say on the mobility component →
