Disability Equality Scotland At 20: Easy Read Easy Read versions can support more people to read and understand your information.  Reaching a wider audience – what organisation doesn’t like that? It’s mainly used by people with a learning disability, but Easy Read is also useful for people with other communication difficulties including: people who find reading difficult people with cognitive impa...

Disability Equality Scotland At 20: Hate Crime Charter As a national membership organisation, Disability Equality Scotland (DES), is continually focussed on the needs of disabled people and disability groups/organisations. One of our most significant projects over the last couple of years has very much built on this lived experience by members (and others) in the challenges of using public transpo...

Disability Equality Scotland At 20: Inclusive Communication Spotlight During our 20 years as a national Disabled People’s Organisation, we have made sure that ‘accessibility’ is considered in the widest possible sense. This includes making sure that there is an awareness and understanding of having information available in accessible formats. It is also about having communication support available...

Disability Equality Scotland At 20: Young Membership Spotlight We want to help start a wider discussion about the experiences of young disabled people in Scotland and we need your help. Our Young Membership category space for people aged 12-17 is important as young disabled people are underrepresented within work on both youth and disability which further marginalises them. There are not a lot of ...

Disability Equality Scotland at 20: Access Panel Spotlight Disability Equality Scotland celebrates its 20th anniversary this year – a milestone for the organisation and for disabled people in Scotland. Throughout the past two decades, Disability Equality Scotland has been working hard to ensure that disabled people have access to the same opportunities as everyone else. That work though simp...

Disability Equality Scotland Turns 20! Today (Saturday 4 February) Disability Equality Scotland celebrates our 20th year as a National Disabled People’s Organisation! To mark the occasion, our Convener Kayla-Megan Burns introduces a week of activity to celebrate our members, Access Panels and the projects that we are involved in. Video transcript: “Hi everyone, I’m Kayla-Megan Bu...

Join Disability Equality Scotland! Position: Training and Development Worker Disability Equality Scotland are looking for a part time Training and Development Worker to deliver and expand a training course as part of our Easy Read Service. The post holder will also support our Easy Read Workers with some translation tasks. The post will contribute to the promotion and marketing of our Easy Read Se...

Weekly Poll- Pressure on the NHS Each week Disability Equality Scotland sends out a poll question to our members on a topical issue and in January 2023, we asked our members about pressure on the NHS.  Please note that this is a snapshot of the views of our membership and does not reflect the policy stance of Disability Equality Scotland. If you plan to reference the findings featured in this repo...

Weekly Poll – Blue Badge Exemptions in Low Emission Zones Each week Disability Equality Scotland send out a poll question to our members on a topical issue. For the week beginning 16 January 2023 we asked a question about Blue Badge Exemptions in Low Emission Zones. Please note that this is a snapshot of the views of our membership and does not reflect a policy stance of Disability Equality Scotla...

Weekly Poll – National Entitlement Card Scheme Each week Disability Equality Scotland send out a poll question to our members on a topical issue and last week we asked our members about the National Entitlement Card scheme. Please note that this is a snapshot of the views of our membership and does not reflect a policy stance of Disability Equality Scotland. Any identifying information within resp...