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📢 We're inviting #disabled women & women with long-term health conditions to join our focus groups. Share your employment experiences to help shape our research project aimed at influencing future policy developments around the labour market. 👉Learn more tinyurl.com/tv5mtrf3

TODAY: Four Disabled People’s Organisations: @DisRightsUK @disabilityni @DisabilityWales & @InclusionScot will address the Covid-19 Public Inquiry. Bhatt Murphy instructing Danny Friedman KC & Anita Davies @matrixchambers. Live coverage & updates follow. @UKCovid-19Inquiry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@UKCovid-19Inq…

One patient with a learning disability has been recorded as a delayed discharge ⁩for more than 8 years. One has been in hospital for 25 years ⁦@calumjmckay⁩ ⁦@BBCScotlandNews⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

A national scandal many are unaware of. We can do better than this. Create relational support that works for the person, honours the wisdom and knowledge of families, draws on professional skills and respects and protects human rights. #BetterIsPossible

Bureau of Investigative Journalism find serious failures with system of support for adaptations for disabled Scots, leaving thousands in unsuitable homes. As @InclusionScot's Susie Fitton makes clear this is a human rights issue for disabled people bit.ly/3KkszTT

Have you completed the Census for your household yet? It is due on 1st May. census.gov.scot. We'd like to know if you have had faced any barriers with completing it. Get in touch with us here or email info@inclusionscotland.org by Thursday.

💥 NEW REPORT 💥 Today we publish research into single parents' experiences of the #ChildMaintenanceService. It's based on a survey, case studies from our helpline + parents using our local services. The resounding message? The CMS needs to change. ➡️ opfs.org.uk/get-involved/n…

@OPFS @Daily_Record Such a critical area that affects many lone parent families, and is a key lever to mitigating child poverty. Great article to raise awareness.

@InclusionScot NOTE - this should say disabled people will 'not' face continuous assessments. Please bear with us whilst we try to change it. It is good news, but yikes, typos.

@tressaburke @stardate2371 @GDA__online GDA going full warp speed ahead as usual. Great!

Absolutely outstanding chairing of Hybrid event .@stardate2371 .@GDA__online Marianne - not an easy task when half the delegates were online but feedback described ple feeling like they were included, Access needs met and fully participated despite a few technical hitches. #DPOs

At midnight tonight the consultation to replace the Human Rights Act with a 'Bill of Frights' (sic) closes. Shameful day for the UK and a sad one for Scotland.

The #HumanRightsAct is central to the fight to end violence against women! It enables us to challenge the state's failures to protect us and uphold our rights. Today on #InternationalWomensDay, we resist plans to scrap it ➡️bit.ly/3IPzKDl #IWD2022

It's International Women's Day. Disabled women #BreakTheBias every day. 'We're individuals with skills, talents and life experience'. Today @InclusionScot gives evidence to @SP_EHRCJ on women's unfair responsibility for unpaid care and domestic work.

So @JohnSwinney @scotgovFM @HumzaYousaf, as someone at high clinical risk who doesn’t want to spend her life stuck in her house, who despairs at how we’re being abandoned, I’ve had a go at drafting an outline strategy for a safe, fully #InclusiveNewNormal. Hope helpful.

Today, RMT members marched to Bute House. We’re demanding: ✅ No cuts to jobs and services on Scotland’s railways ✅ A just transition for offshore workers ✅ No privatisation of CalMac.

📣 Please RT thanks! Recruitment now open for members of the new SNAP Leadership Panel. Members will work together as equals to finalise, launch and oversee Scotland's next National Action Plan for #HumanRights. Find out more and apply now at snaprights.info/leadership-pan…

NEW: We have today launched a call for evidence as part of our new inquiry into poverty and stigma. We want to hear from people and organisations from across Scotland on the impacts, causes of and solutions to poverty-related stigma. Read more here: povertyalliance.org/cpg-stigma-inq…

@InclusionScot @TheLastLeg @josierones give us a shout out Rosie!

@TheLastLeg #IsItOk that disabled people have not been included in actions to reduce the impact of climate change and are, in fact, disadvantaged by them. #EcoAblism

@InclusionScot @COP26 Oi @TheLastLeg check it out. Inclusion Scotland was inside @COP26 today talking about disabled people and climate change.

We are launching our report calling for inclusive climate action in the blue zone @COP26 tomorrow. See the report bit.ly/31svmsB and stream the event live bit.ly/3bMO2F7. Image below of a flyer giving details of the event which runs from 11.30am to 12.45pm.

Disabled people need a voice @COP26. Where's the sign language, captions, accessible signage? @UNFCCC. Please fix it for Friday am Disability Rights session. @KatherineLofts