Welcome to INDI South East
INDI Disability Awareness and Networking Event
24th May Basingstoke
Do disabled people use your services? Do you need to be more disability aware? Over 50 organisations have already booked for this event. Find out more on our About Us page
INDI South East shares disability related information, skills, resources and knowledge amongst VCS organisations to help improve the opportunities they provide for disabled people.
Become a member and sign up to our regular ebulletins for the latest news and information in the disability sector. Take a look at our resource pages for sector updates, consultations, and useful toolkits. Read an INDI South East briefing on the Welfare Reform Act here on our Welfare and Benefits page.
Coming up - we are holding a third Disability Awareness and Networking event in May for groups and agencies, and futher networking meetings for groups in Berkshire, East Sussex, Buckinghamshire and Hampshire.
INDI is a project of SID – Social Information on Disability.
News
The West Sussex Hate Incident Support Service, provided by Victim Support, has recently launched an Easy Read Form to encourage the reporting of Disability Hate Crime in West Sussex. This is when a crime has occurred because of the victim’s perceived or actual disability. The support service hopes that those affected by this type of hate crime will use the form to report these incidents so they do not continue to suffer in silence. Full story here.
Any disabled person can report a hate crime anonymously on the True Vision website. The Government has announced an action plan to tackling all hate crime which recognises the importance of challenging the attitudes and behaviours that foster hatred, and encouraging early intervention to reduce the risk of incidents escalating. Police recorded hate crimes will be published as national statistics for the first time this summer.
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