Disability Champion – Helen Keller ‘The Miracle Worker’
I think that most people have heard of Helen Keller. I first heard a little about her when I was at school, and it is an interesting...
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kevinndaws
2 days ago4 min read
UCU Disabled Members call for Urgent Action on SEND
At the UCU Disabled Members Conference last Thursday we had an informed debate on the deepening crisis in Special Educational Needs...
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kevinndaws
3 days ago3 min read
5-Minute interview with Maxine Looby, President of UCU
To celebrate Disability History Month All4Inclusion have been conducting 5-minute interviews with disabled people who are disability...
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kevinndaws
4 days ago4 min read
Today is the International Day for Persons with Disabilities!
So why is there a special day for disabled people, and when did it start? The short answer to that question is that we want to...
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kevinndaws
5 days ago4 min read
Disability Champion: Benjamin Ormond Purse OBE, was a British trade unionist and campaigner for the rights of blind people
Benjamin Ormond Purse (29 August 1874 – 31 March 1950) Benjamin Ormond Purse was born in Salford , Lancashire on 29...
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kevinndaws
6 days ago5 min read
Assisted Dying vote refocuses the debate
On the eve of the parliamentary debate on the Assisted Suicide Bill, the disabled members of UCU, the lecturers trade union, debated the...
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kevinndaws
Nov 275 min read
A Trade Union Champion for Disabled People - Sean McGovern
Sean was a well-known and respected both within the Trade Union movement and the Disability movement The former Assistant General...
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kevinndaws
Nov 275 min read
Update on accessibility of public transport.
Since I originally published this post my colleague, Danielle from the West Midlands, who last month read out the letter from Phil at the...
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kevinndaws
Nov 253 min read
Mandy Sandhu - Unite Disability Campaigner in the North West
Can I start by asking you to tell us a little about yourself? I'm Mandy! I’m passionate about making the world a better place for people...
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kevinndaws
Nov 254 min read
The Government should support disabled people to succeed instead of setting them up to fail!
Over the weekend we have seen a lot of rhetoric about getting people into work and tackling benefit fraud. On Sunday the Prime Minister,...
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kevinndaws
Nov 235 min read
What are Reasonable Adjustments?
Let me start by asking you have you heard of ‘Reasonable Adjustments’? If so, do you know what it means? It is a fairly recent concept,...
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kevinndaws
Nov 204 min read
Is public transport really accessible?
In an earlier article I mentioned that I attended the recent Unite the Union Disabled members Conference in Birmingham where we did talk...
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Scott Whitney
Nov 164 min read
Working with the next generation
Todays children are the leaders of the future.
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Scott Whitney
Sep 272 min read
Conflicting emotions
What do you do when your emotions collide in your head?
It's like being in the eye of a storm or waves crashing against the rocks.
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Scott Whitney
Jun 221 min read
Stuck in the mud
Our photography group topic this month is animals I had to go for an x ray at Manchester MRI hospital. That’s another story. But it...
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Scott Whitney
May 301 min read
We should want more than a seat at a table
It’s a common phrase, “We want a seat at the table”. To be honest, I think this phrase is outdated already and a tad boring. Having a...
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