SECTOR NEWS RELEASE BY NATIONAL EMERGENCIES TRUST (NET). £12million from NET’s Coronavirus Appeal will fund helplines and other support services to address unmet need among disproportionately impacted groups The National Emergencies Trust (NET) is announcing plans to distribute £12million of funds from its Coronavirus Appeal to a range of charity partnerships offering targeted support to […]
Author: Elin Williams
Launching our Disabled People’s Manifesto survey
The 2021 Senedd elections are approaching and Disability Wales wants to make sure that the voices of disabled people in Wales are heard, loud and clear. We will be publishing a Disabled People’s Manifesto, informed and driven by the experiences of Disability Wales members. In the principle of the Social Model of Disability, we want […]
How to make your information accessible to our members
Sharing your information with our members Here at Disability Wales, we receive many requests to share information with our members which we are happy to help with. But often, information given isn’t accessible and isn’t provided in an easy format for us to reproduce on social media. With this in mind, we thought we’d share […]
DRILL in Wales: The impact so far
Historically, research on disability has rarely included people with lived experience. Not only have disabled people been excluded from participating in research about our lives, but complex statistics or inaccessible research findings may preclude disabled people from understanding evidence and contributing to discussions about services or policies. At the same time, disabled people have become […]
