Looking for work can be twice as hard if you are disabled or have a health condition. In Glasgow, only 45% of disabled people aged 16-65 are in work, compared to 67% of our non-disabled peers – this is the lowest in Scotland, where on average 49% of disabled people are in work, compared to […]
Social Care is the bedrock of Independent Living – of disabled people’s rights to: Have equal choice and control over where we live and who we live with Access the supports we need to be fully included and participate in the community (UN Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 19) Yet […]
As part of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, GDA was delighted to become one of the Scottish Government’s first pilot communities for their ‘Connecting Scotland’ digital inclusion drive. Disabled people are 4 times as likely to face digital exclusion – lacking the equipment, connectivity or confidence to access the internet. Digital exclusion is both […]
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with all our face to face activity suspended, and the pandemic hitting disabled people especially hard, GDA quickly set about making check-in phone calls to all 5000 of our members. This quickly developed into GDA’s Wellbeing service, now with 2 Wellbeing advisers dedicated to supporting disabled people to cope, […]
