A Scottish charity has launched a new campaign to improve the quality of life for disabled people by including them in the design of services and everyday household products from their living rooms.The Blackwood Foundation has launched the bespoken campaign to recognise disabled people as experts on independent living at a time when many face increasingly significant barriers to living independently from benefits reform and cuts to care services.
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Many face increasingly significant barriers to living independently from benefits reform
Social media campaign taps into expertise of disabled people
Many face increasingly significant barriers to living independently from benefits reform and cuts to care services.
By Catie Guitart 09 September 2011 14:48 BST
The government wants your views on adult learning
Have your Say! Informal Adult Community Learning Survey
What is this survey about?
It is part of the Government’s review of informal adult community learning (IACL). It is gathering the views of individuals rather than organisations.The government wants to hear your views on the kinds of learning that you would like in your local area and/or workplace and how you would like to have your say or get involved.
Students teach life-changing IT skills to the elderly
Watford Grammar School teens go the extra mile with community IT classes
It mightn’t be every teenager’s idea of holiday fun, but three community spirited students from Watford Grammar School have spent much of their summer break teaching life-changing IT skills to the elderly.
Fifteen-year-olds Seb Walker, Anojan Ratnarajah and Conor Foster held a series of term-time IT workshops at the Holywell Community Centre earlier in the year as part of their Duke of Edinburgh award scheme.
