To book or for further information please call

Paul

T: 07746876615

or call Jacqui

T: 01209 211633

For more information please use the below contact details

T: 07775756454

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George Eustice MP for Camborne & Redruth visited the Disability Cornwall offices today.

We had a very productive meeting with him and he heard first-hand about the need for the Government to complete an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) on the cumulative affect of all their proposed benefit cuts. This assessment would demonstrate how many disabled people can be affected by a myriad of different cuts to their entitlements and the impact on their independence and quality of life this could have.

We will continue this dialogue with him and our other MPs, but are acutely aware they can only act if their constituents demand it. Please help us by contacting your MP with your concerns. The information on this template letter may help you.

Template for MPs  Letter

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T: 01736 756655

Disability Cornwall has been lobbying all of our local MPs (including 2 in Devon) to push the Government to conduct an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) on the cumulative affect of all the proposed benefit cuts.

We have now had meetings with two local MPs and another, with George Eustice MP, will occur tomorrow. We will use this opportunity to press him for the EIA and to also illustrate the devastating affects the cuts are, and will have, on disabled people and their families.

Please help us by contacting your local MP and encourage them yourself to lobby their own political disability group to call on the Government to carry out this much needed EIA on the cumulative affect of the all the benefit changes. They can only act if their constituents demand it! Together our voice will be stronger.

Our contact details are below

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T: 01736 756655

There is no age limit for competition entry's and ideally the full range of the autism spectrum will be represented including people with Asperger Syndrome, Apraxia and Agnosia.

For further information please contact Ian on the following details

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T: 0208 8881 8636

www.hoffmannfoundation.org.uk

Families in Devon and Cornwall will find it cheaper to get out and about this Easter thanks to an offer from First. The company is reducing its FirstDay Family South West tickets by more than 45% just in time for the Easter Holidays.

This intended is to help families make outings around the South West over the Easter school holidays, the tickets, which usually cost £18.70, will be reduced to only £10 for three weeks between 24 March and 14 April 2013.

They allow up to five people, with a maximum of two adults (anyone 16 or over), unlimited travel for the whole day on most First buses in the South West including those in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol.

FirstDay Family South West tickets can be purchased from any First bus in Devon and Cornwall, direct from the driver and of course at one of the company's many travel shops around the region.

Over Easter, the services will be as follows in Devon and Cornwall

Good Friday (29 March):
Buses will operate Sunday/Public Holiday timetables.

Saturday 30 March and Sunday 31 March
Services will operate as normal.

Bank Holiday Monday (1 April)
Buses will operate Sunday/Public Holiday timetables.

For more information about First in Devon & Cornwall, or to view timetable information log onto the below websites
www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/

Disabled People Against Cuts are currently fighting the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) through the courts to save the Independent Living Fund (ILF). The ILF has provided vital assistance to people with high support needs in helping to maintain independence and the development of fulfilling lifestyles.

The current fund is centrally administered, but will be passed to local authorities in 2015 where it will not be ring fenced. Considering the funding crisis many council’s are in, ILF users fear the money will disappear. Although Disability Cornwall were originally asked to act as contact point, we now want as many ILF users as possible to get in touch, even if only to be kept informed about their on-going campaign. There is strength in numbers. Please contact them.

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New documents have come to light which confirm what many disabled people have always known – there are no welfare reforms, just benefit cuts, such as the recent changes to council tax, a tax people receiving council tax benefit were deemed too poor to pay, but will now have to find 25% of their individual charge. There are more significant changes happening to people’s entitlements from next month and as always, if you are concerned how they may affect you, please contact our Disability Information & Advice Line (DIAL) between 10am-3pm Monday to Friday.

T: 01736 759500

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Our mission is to facilitate a fully inclusive society in Cornwall through empowering disabled people to achieve independence, choice and control. These last three words seem under great threat for disabled people in 2013 from a Government that completely fails to understand what cumulative affect of all their benefit cuts will have on disabled people. This point is acknowledged by the Department for Work and Pensions. We implore the Government to conduct an Equality Impact Assessment, but this will never occur unless you lobby your local MP.

Two of our MPs have told us they have heard more about the badger cull from their constituents than they have about the plethora of benefit cuts many disabled people are facing, so please contact your MP with the concerns you have.

http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/

T: 01752 784490

www.disabledactivityday.co.uk

Community Service Volunteers (CSV) is part of an initiative called Healthwatch-Communities Involved.

They are supporting NHS Change Day by calling on local people,

communities and voluntary organisations to make a difference by getting

involved and adding their voice to how local health and social care

services are run in their areas.

Local health and social care is changing rapidly and the ways in which

people can participate in shaping these services is also changing. From

1 April 2013, a new local consumer champion - local Healthwatch - with the

powers to hold local services to account will be set up in every city

and county council across the country.

To get the best local services people need a say. They need to be able to

influence what services are available, how they are delivered and who

delivers them. They also need to challenge services that aren't up to

scratch. There is so much potential to make a difference, your

involvement does not have to be huge. Anyone can get involved in local

Healthwatch.

Please click on the link below instead of the main one which is

underneath my name, as this will mean I can count you as a CSV

Volunteer.
Sign Up:  http://healthwatch-ci.co.uk/signup-csv/

For further information please contact

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