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GDA Manifesto 2024
PublicationDisabled People in Glasgow and Scotland have felt deprioritised and dehumanised increasingly over decades and even more so since the last General Election. Successive policies and Governments have failed to tackle our poverty and inequality and the dire situation facing disabled people has been supercharged by national policies and global events e.g. austerity, the pandemic and the cost of living crisis.
Read our 2024 Manifesto and Asks to learn more about what disabled people are demanding this election.
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GDA Evidence at Scottish Covid Inquiry – November 2023
FilmGDA Chief Executive, Tressa Burke, gives evidence to the Scottish Covid Inquiry in November 2023.
"Over the last 3 years and 9 months, GDA has transformed our delivery model to respond to the urgent and pressing needs of disabled people as a consequence of the pandemic and now cost of living crisis. Programmes are now available in person or online, by phone and through hybrid delivery models too e.g. events.
During the height of the pandemic, funding flowed and worries about how to meet needs were removed. However, this reverted to more “normal” and draconian practises which disadvantage DPOs because of a lack of understanding of the additional supports disabled people need and related investment required to enable this.
Disabled people need now more than ever to be prioritised in policies and actions to tackle the pre-existing inequalities which were supercharged as well as the new ones created. We must ask ourselves as a country, what is our motivation, what is our capacity and what are the opportunities for change? Much of this will depend on political leadership and resources and if we can make progress on the motivation factor, the rest will follow. This will depend on building understanding of disabled people’s lives and working with disabled people and our organisations to build services and supports which ensure that disabled people are never again left behind, fearing for our very lives- not only because of a deadly virus but because of how devalued and dehumanised we are by society. This might seems dramatic and I’m afraid that is because it is. "
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Rights Now! Trifold
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Learning & Events Bulletin November 2023
PublicationLearning & Events Bulletin November 2023
- Celebrating Community: Rescuing Progress for Disabled People, Wednesday 6th December, 10.30am – 2.30pm (Hybrid)
- New in-person learning courses and programmes
- Helpful Numbers for the Festive Season
- GDA Multiply
- Social Care Expert Group (SCEG)
- BAME Network
- Drivers for Change (DfC)Download Now
GDA and Scottish Women’s Budget Group – Briefing Paper November 2023
PublicationGlasgow Disability Alliance’s Triple Whammy report showed that ‘For disabled women, the inequality, exclusion and discrimination already faced as a disabled person, and as a woman, have been triple-charged by the unequal impacts of Covid-19’.
The Scottish Women’s Budget Group have worked with members of Glasgow Disability Alliance to use gender budgeting tools to look at how these structural inequalities impact disabled women, how the current cost of living crisis is exacerbating theses inequalities and how the actions taken to address the crisis are impacting.
Between May and July 2023 SWBG & GDA carried out a survey with GDA members to identify how they were being impacted by rising costs. In total, 103 disabled women responded to the survey.
The findings show that disabled women continue to feel the strain of the situation created by the pandemic while simultaneously experiencing the unequal impact of the cost-of-living crisis
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GDA Response to Scottish Government’s ‘A Human Rights Bill for Scotland’ Consultation
PublicationWe strongly support the incorporation of all of our international human
rights treaties, in particular the UNCRPD, into Scots Law. Building a
framework of strong rights, duties and accountability, with adequate and
meaningful access to justice, is a vital step to stop the decimation of
disabled people’s human rights that has been called a “human
catastrophe” by the UN itself.We welcome the long-awaited consultation on the Bill as a step towards
human rights law in Scotland and following through on the commitment
to enshrine UNCRPD into Scots Law, made in the last parliamentary
session.As outlined in our response, while we welcome many of the proposals within the
bill, we have concerns about the limits within the current proposals to
protect disabled people’s human rights. In particular, the model of
incorporation needs to place a stronger duty to comply on as many
rights of possible within the UNCRPD.Download Now
