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Cross Party Group on Learning Disability urges Scottish Government to take urgent action to uphold the human rights of people who have a learning disability during Covid-19
Date: February 17, 2021- Category: CampaigningENABLE Scotland is the secretariat for the Cross Party Group on Learning Disability in the Scottish Parliament. The Cross Party Group (CPG) meets four times a year, and considers issues that impact on the human rights of people who have a learning disability in Scotland. Members of the Cross Party…
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ENABLE Scotland members take In Safe Hands to Holyrood
Date: March 3, 2020- Category: CampaigningContinuing the success of the In Safe Hands campaign to end the inappropriate use of seclusion and restraint in Scotland’s schools, ENABLE Scotland members took the campaign to the Scottish Parliament (Tuesday 25th February) where it was the subject of a member’s business debate led by Jackie Baillie MSP. In…
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#BeTheChange
Date: March 15, 2018- Category: CampaigningHi, I’m Lucy. Over the past few months I have spent time shadowing ENABLE Scotland’s CEO Theresa Shearer, and she has encouraged me to become more active in our campaigning activity. I am now the Chair of National Youth ACE Group (Active Community of Empowered People). Theresa says that I am a…
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Breaking the barriers to inclusion and equality
Date: February 9, 2018- Category: Campaigning News - ENABLE WorksToday is a significant day, as the Scottish Government consultation on ‘Excellence and Equality for all: Guidance on the Presumption to Mainstreaming’ closes. This guidance – called for by ENABLE Scotland – is a crucial next step on the journey to inclusion and we welcome its publication and intent. I…
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Strathclyde helps students who have learning disabilities to break barriers to Higher Education
Date: February 7, 2018- Category: Campaigning News - ENABLE WorksStudents who have a learning disability will have the opportunity to attend one of Scotland’s most prestigious universities following the launch of a new project by the University of Strathclyde, leading charity ENABLE Scotland and national employer ScottishPower. Eight learners aged 18-24 will have the opportunity to study for a…
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Campaigners deliver lesson on learning disability in Parliament
Date: December 14, 2017- Category: CampaigningYoung learning disability campaigners gathered at the Scottish Parliament yesterday (12th December) to tell MSPs about their experiences of being bullied and to promote ‘change through understanding’. Standing outside the Parliament building in Edinburgh, a band of ‘Change Champions’ from charity ENABLE Scotland held placards with personal details about themselves,…
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All children can achieve!
Date: December 8, 2017- Category: CampaigningAlmost one year ago today, I sat in a committee room at Holyrood and cried as I listened to Lucy McKee, Jan Savage and Theresa Shearer talk about hundreds of children all over Scotland who were missing out on so much of life at school. That was the day we…
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No longer the ‘elephant in the room’
Date: December 7, 2017- Category: CampaigningAs I addressed the ENABLE Scotland National Conference in Glasgow last month – and as a former teacher – I considered what had been achieved by their headline campaign #IncludED in the Main?! and the voices of more than 800 people who supported it. Today, we are one year on…
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Taking big steps on the journey to inclusion
Date: November 24, 2017- Category: CampaigningLast weekend, it was my pleasure to welcome delegates to ENABLE Scotland’s inaugural National Conference at Glasgow Caledonian University. In my address to the conference, I reflected on the big steps we have taken on the journey to inclusion as a country – in 1974 when we won the right…
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‘You should never have been born’
Date: November 16, 2017- Category: CampaigningThat’s what the bullies at school said to me – so yes, I know what it feels like to be bullied. But I also know that when someone makes you feel worthless, you have a choice. You can accept it, and let them make you feel bad, or you can…
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