Scottish Government responds to welcome the call to action from the Social Renewal Advisory Board Today the Scottish Government published its initial response to the Social Renewal Advisory Board’s Report “If not now, when?”. Welcoming the ‘ambitious and innovative’ calls to action set out in the Board’s report current Ministers have made clear, that depending… Continue Reading Scottish Government responds to welcome the call to action from the Social Renewal Advisory Board
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In February 2021 Inclusion Scotland ran a survey to ask disabled people their views on key aspects of the Adult Disability Payment draft regulations. This report sets out what disabled people told us and our response to the Scottish Government’s consultation. Adult Disability Payment is a new Scottish benefit which will replace Personal Independence… Continue Reading Disabled People’s view of the draft Adult Disability Payment Regulations
Disabled People, their organisations and their supporters have spoken. The time to incorporate the Convention on the Rights of Disabled People into Scots domestic law is now. The recent accumulative impacts of Brexit and COVID-19 have brought decades of injustice, exclusion and invisibility into sharp focus. Delay is not an option. Over 120 disabled people, our organisations… Continue Reading Our Human Rights – call to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (CRPD) into Scots law
Disabled people know best what matters and what needs to change. Our Disabled People’s Organisations, like Inclusion Scotland and the members of the Scottish Independent Living Coalition (SILC) are organisations of, not for, disabled people ourselves. The National Taskforce for Human Rights Leadership will soon make a report setting out proposals for a new human… Continue Reading SILC’s Letter to the Human Rights Taskforce on UNCRPD General Comment 7
Events, Policy and Parliament, Publications, Rights and Legal Issues | Comments are Closed | 15 December, 2020 | 0
What happened to disabled people’s rights since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic? What are Scotland’s plans for moving forward, and will our rights be protected and progressed? What can we say to candidates in the 2021 Scottish Elections? What can Inclusion Scotland do? Inclusion Scotland’s Annual Conference 2020 looked at these issues and more. … Continue Reading Rights and Renewal: A Fresh Start for Disabled People? Inclusion Scotland’s Annual Conference 2020
Employability and Civic Participation, News, Policy and Parliament, Publications | Comments are Closed | 18 September, 2020 | 2
Factsheet: Programme for Government 2020-2021 – Employment Date: September 2020 This factsheet covers what the Scottish Government’s 2020-2021 Programme for Government sets out to do on Employment and how this relates to disabled people. Download our Programme for Government 2020-2021 – Employment factsheet as a Word document or download our factsheet as a PDF. Inclusion… Continue Reading Factsheet: on Employment and Disabled People in the Scottish Government’s 2020-2021 Programme for Government
Factsheet: Programme for Government 2020-2021 – Social Care Support Date: September 2020 This factsheet covers what the Scottish Government’s 2020-2021 Programme for Government sets out to do on Social Care Support and how this relates to disabled people. Download our Programme for Government 2020-2021 – Social Care Support factsheet as a Word document or … Continue Reading Urgent radical action needed to transform Scotland’s social care support system
Our new report, ‘Services for who?’, is the culmination of a 2 year DRILL funded research project which explored the experiences of disabled people with other characteristics when accessing services. We spoke to disabled people and service providers to try to understand whether disabled people’s experiences of discrimination are about more than just being a disabled person. … Continue Reading Services For Who?