Invitation: Online Event Wednesday 13 December 2023 10.00 to 12.00   Shaping your Human Rights Commission 2024-2028 Strategic Plan   What are the biggest human rights issues affecting people and communities in Scotland? What human rights are at risk,...

Sunday 3rd December is International Disabled People’s Day (IDODP). Disabled Scots are still missing out, still living in poverty and still excluded from full and equal participation in our communities.  Read our calls on to mark IDODP including calls for urgent...

Artificial Intelligence is here to stay.  This new Solutions Series report by Inclusion Scotland looks at what this means for disabled people’s rights. Does regulation of AI protect and progress our human rights?  Is the way that AI works building...

The Scottish Government published its “Programme For Government” on Tuesday (5/9/23).  These are its plans for what its going to do in the year ahead (2024 to 2025). There are some very positive proposals in the Programme which will benefit...

Disabled People’s Organisations have written to the First Minister ahead of the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government due out this week to ask him to take urgent action to tackle the poverty and inequalities which are blighting lives, eroding rights and...

Up to 15 people from across Scotland are being sought to help shape the future of adult social care support in Scotland. The People-led Policy Panel project, a project run by Inclusion Scotland, is being funded by the Scottish Government...

Things are getting worse for disabled people in Scotland and across the UK. Read this scathing report by UK Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations evaluating the government’s performance seven years on from a United Nations finding of grave and systematic...

In this blog Bill Scott, Senior Policy Advisor and Heather Fisken, Head of Policy and Research at Inclusion Scotland write about the cost of living crisis and the devastating impact it’s having on disabled people in Scotland. When moving around...

The cost of living crisis continues to take an unrelenting and horrific toll on disabled people, with many struggling to survive. This must not be allowed to become the ‘new normal’ and to fade from the headlines and the political...

From social care support and day centres to swimming pools and libraries, council services are a vital lifeline for many disabled people. However, we are aware of reports that council services used by disabled people are being cut. This is...

Read our Conference Report ‘Stacked Against Us’ to learn more about disabled people’s experience of the cost-of-living crisis and what needs to be done about it. The rising costs of food and energy, the decreasing value of benefits, discrimination in...

  The UK Government’s Spring Budget (15th March 2023) included proposals to get rid of the Work Capability Assessment. But the proposals to replace it with the assessment used for Personal Independence Payment, or the Adult Disability Payment in Scotland, could...

Image Credit: Different Minds. To mark World Autism Acceptance Week 2023 (27 March – 2 April), I’d like to explain why it helps if employers have an autism-friendly culture.  And to signpost to some resources that indicate what an autism-friendly...

The Scottish Government recently published a consultation about the mobility component of Adult Disability Payment (ADP).  The consultation asks questions about the mobility criteria and people’s experience of applying for, claiming and being transferred to ADP.  Inclusion Scotland will be...

From not being able to heat their homes, to cutting down on using things like electric wheelchairs and oxygen machines, disabled people are struggling with the cost of living crisis. Our new report reveals how disabled people are coping with...

This is a video about why the United Nations Convention for Disabled people matters and what it means for disabled people, with BSL and subtitles.  

Why is the Convention of the Rights of Disabled People important? (BSL, captions, voice over)

In this series of three short films, we highlight our learning about remote working and running online meetings throughout the pandemic.  We explore some of the main issues and barriers faced by disabled people working remotely and attending online meetings....

BSL, captions and voiceover @Inclusion Scotland

BSL, captions and voiceover @Inclusion Scotland