Blog Christmas Challenges Christmas time for most of us is happy, fun and a time to be with family and friends. However, we do often hear from Read article
Blog How Can Advocacy Help? For many people with lived experience of disability or a long-term health condition, situations like having problems with a process that involves education, child Read article
Blog Volunteers’ Week 2022 To celebrate Volunteers’ Week 2022, I wanted to write about one of our brilliant volunteers here at Disability Positive. Our volunteers work in all Read article
Blog Don’t forget disabled people in the Covid-19 Inquiry In March 2022, the government set out its plans for a Covid inquiry, to look at the response to the pandemic. It published a Read article
Blog Social Care Staffing Crisis – Have your voice heard! We, along with other user led organisations and people living with disability and long term health conditions – are calling on the government to Read article
Blog Today is Human Rights Day Why the Human Rights Act Matters… for achieving a world that is Disability Positive The Human Rights Act is important in making sure that Read article
Blog Living with mental health problems: My experience Over 60% [edit: 70% 2023] of our workforce here at Disability Positive have lived experience of disability and long-term health conditions, and I am Read article
Blog Reflecting on a year of volunteering As we reflect on the past year we think of the volunteers that have supported us. At this time last year we were in Read article
Blog Becoming a Personal Assistant By Lindsey Walton-Hardy, Head of Services Lots of our members and customers employ a personal assistant, to support them to live independently. But do Read article
Blog Did you know? (employing skilled people with disability) There are a lot of untruths out there about employing people with a disability Read article
Blog The social model of disability – what is it? At Disability Positive we often talk about the social model of disability. We say it underpins everything we do, and we explain why on Read article
Blog A day in the life of the Disability Positive Community Engagement Team This week the team are planning the Active Friendships group, which is online dance/physical activity sessions for people aged 14+. Read article
