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Equality 2025 meetings and events

 

Equality 2025 meetings and events

Relevant to: Disabled people and organisations of and for disabled people.

Equality 2025 held its first public meeting on 12 November 2007 at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. The meeting was attended by disabled people from across the UK. The Tell Us report outlines the views of disabled people who attended, and influenced Equality 2025's work plan for 2008/09.

Throughout 2008, Equality 2025 will hold smaller, regional meetings. The details of these are shown below.

Click on the dates for further details.

Meeting dates Venue Topics
31 January 2008 Plymouth
  • Ways to help disabled people get into work
  • Independent Living
  • How can Equality 2025 engage with the widest possible range of disabled people?
  • Advising government on what to do about the negative image of disabled people
  • Key messages to take back to government
15 May 2008 Belfast
  • UN Convention and group discussions
  • Independent living and group discussions
  • What are the key messages you want us to take back to government?

17-18 July 2008

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Access to Social Care, Welfare Reform and Employment, Transport and Housing

18 September 2008 Cornwall Meeting report to follow

30 September 2008

Walsall

Meeting report to follow

7 October 2008 Scotland Postponed until 2009

April 2009

Telford

To be confirmed

Equality 2025 members would like to hear views on topics that are important to you.

Please send your suggestions for topics for discussion and other views on policies or disability issues to members of Equality 2025 at info@equality2025.org, or leave a voicemail message on 0845 460 2025 (calls charged at local rate).

Meeting dates and topics for future meetings of Equality 2025 Network members:

Meeting dates Topics
29-30 January 2008 
  • Independent Living Review
  • Devolved administrations
  • Transitions
  • Work plan and priorities for 2008/9
  • Financial update.     
28-29 March 2008
  • Presentation: The Centre on Human Rights for Disabled People
  • Presentation: ‘Count us in’ project, working with disabled people to increase participation and representation in the electoral process
  • Presentation: Advocacy work in Newry and the challenges posed by moving people with learning disabilities away from day care provision
  • Equality 2025 2008/9 workplan
  • Projects: project leaders and teams
  • Disability Equality Duty and Impact Assessments
  • Implication of advising on presumption of employability
  • Presentation: Promoting social inclusion working group on disability in Northern Ireland
  • Future Meetings
  • Engagement

10-11 June 2008

  • Welfare Reform
  • Social Care Reform
  • Disability Equality Duty – Secretary of State Reports

23-24 September 2008

Meeting report to follow

4-5 December 2008

To be confirmed

17-18 March 2009

To be confirmed

16-17 June 2009

To be confirmed

September 2009

To be confirmed

December 2009

To be confirmed

Equality 2025 members would like to hear from you on topics that are important to you.

Please send your views to members of Equality 2025 by email to: mailto:info@equality2025.org or leave us a voicemail at 0845 460 2025 (charges local rate).

Equality 2025 at other events

Liberty Festival 2008

On 31 August 2008 members from Equality 2025 met with over 300 Deaf and disabled Londoners at our stall at the Liberty Festival.

Read more about the event

Page last reviewed: 26 September 2008

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