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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Welcome to the first YourVoice for 2012. Stay with us throughout the year for all the news and views for the disability community. The year begins as last year ended – with battles raging over the cuts. Happy reading! For the full version of YourVoice, click here
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
If you have been following the story on Shropshire Disability Network website you will remember that there has been quite a bit of dialogue between disabled members of Shropshire Community, and the Shropshire Council Prinicipal Transport Planner, Samantha Tharme (click here to refresh your memory) . In fact, the intervention of PatrickMcDermott of Market Drayton in [...]
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
NationalVolunteers Week in June celebrates, in all sorts of ways, the work of volunteers, whether you describe yourself as a volunteer or not, if you do something for others for nothing, occasionally, regularly, or as a one off, you are a volunteer! Shropshire Disability Network is wholly organised and run by volunteers, and we are [...]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Shropshire Disability Network has invited them all to respond to a series of Questions about the Welfare Reform Bill and their personal views on this. We will publish any replies from them verbatim, and invite comment from you. You may wish to encourage your own MP to respond yourselves as some have not yet replied [...]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
A very big “thank you” to everyone involved with SDN for their kind messages and all their support following my recent amputation and stay in Hospital. Following another little scare at the end of last week, things seem to be back on track, after further recent changes to my Antibiotics. I hope to be back [...]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Did you know we have a budding athletics star in our midst? Ben Rowlings lives in Newport, is 15 years old, has cerebral palsy and is already in the Top Five in the UK and thats with a very old wheelchair borrowed from someone else! Where would he be with the state of the art racing [...]
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
Shropshire Disability Network has sent an email to all members of the House of Lords who did not vote against the Welfare Reform Bill last week. The email sets out the concerns of people with disability, and attaches a copy of the Spartacus Report setting out the truth about the results of the Government Consultation. [...]
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
This report, written by disabled people themselves, and based on an analysis of some 500 responses to the UK government’s consultation on its planned Disability Living Allowance (DLA) changes and cuts, illustrates that the coalition’s proposed ‘reforms’ lack both support and credibility. ‘Responsible Reform’ shows that the government’s DLA consultation breached the government’s own code [...]
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
Short Breaks provide opportunities for disabled children and young people to spend time away from their primary carers. This includes day, evening, overnight or weekend activities, which can take place in the child’s own home, the home of an approved carer, or a residential or community setting. Short Breaks can also be provided through a [...]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Our late Chair Geoff Forgie’s family have asked SDN if we could help in promoting the sale of Geoff’s Wheelchair Accessible Car which many of you will have come to know well, either as a passenger on some of Geoff’s many trips to meetings and events when he requested your company, or through seeing it parked at [...]
