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This is a great opportunity for a disabled person (including D/deaf) interested Equal Opportunities and Accessible Recruitment to gain valuable work experience with SSE based in either Perth or Glasgow. Payment:        UK Living Wage rate of £9.30 per hour Accountable to: Keith Forbes Contract:        455  hours, equivalent to 13… Continue Reading SSE Networks Inclusion Adviser – Research and Design internship (Closing date 17th February 2020)

This is a great opportunity for a disabled person (including D/deaf) interested in evidence and policy to gain valuable work experience with SCLD. SCLD would particularly welcome applications from anyone with a learning disability. Payment:        UK Living Wage rate of £9.30 per hour Accountable to: Evidence and Policy Manager, SCLD. Contract:   … Continue Reading Evidence and Policy Internship with SCLD (Closing date 10 February 2020)

From Monday 17 September 2018 the Access to Elected Office Fund (Scotland) will be open for applicants running for selection and as candidates for the Scottish Parliament elections in 2021. The Fund, which is delivered by Inclusion Scotland and financed by the Scottish Government, offers financial assistance to disabled people running in the 2021 Scottish Parliament… Continue Reading Press Release: Election Fund for Disabled Candidates opens

Scotland’s political leaders have today given their backing to an Access to Politics Charter, coproduced by Inclusion Scotland and disabled people, to address the under-representation of disabled people in Scottish public life. At an event in the Scottish Parliament, hosted on behalf of the Presiding Officer by Deputy Presiding Officer Linda Fabiani MSP, the Leaders… Continue Reading Press Release: Scottish Political Leaders back Access Charter

Despite millions of pounds being pumped into programmes aiming to assist disabled people into work the employment gap between disabled and non-disabled people in Scotland persists, with disabled people in Scotland being half as likely to be employed as non-disabled people according to a unique report launched today by Inclusion Scotland. Drawing on the views… Continue Reading Press Release: New focus needed to tackle disability employment gap in Scotland