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From AbilityNet:

Seeking disabled user testers for a PAID project! - AbilityNet

We are seeking savvy technical, disabled users and over 55’s, for exciting new paid projects! AbilityNet wants to PAY users, to test websites and mobile apps for accessibility and usability purposes, at locations in the North West.

The Yellow Book is produced by the Rethink Your Mind project annually. It contains a selection of poetry and artwork submitted by people who experience mental health challenges, as well as information about where to find support around mental health issues.

The 2017/18 Yellow Book, containing pieces inspired by the theme ‘I Feel Better When I Am…’, is now available in print and on the website, with an audio version due out later this year.

For more information, and to view the web or order the print version (cost £3.50 covering Postage and Packing), go to:

The Co-production Group will be made up of people with lived experience of a person centred approach to health and social care. They will help deliver and shape the Greater Manchester Health and Care Partnership’s programmes, including personal health budgets and broader person and community centred initiatives.  
 
Person and Community Centred Approaches Programme: Strategic CoProduction Group

From Disability News Service

An announcement by disability charity Scope that it will sell all its residential homes and special schools, and re-position itself as a “social change organisation”, is an attempt to invade the ground occupied by disabled people’s organisations (DPOs), say critics.

The shake-up appears to be designed to distance the non-user-led charity from its roots as a provider of segregated services for disabled people.

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The Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People has a long and proud history of campaigning for the rights of disabled people. It’s fair to say that in the 30+ years of our existence, that we have been one of the most active, effective and well respected disabled people’s organisation in the country. All of this has been achieved in no small measure by its members.