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Learning Disability Week 2019

Having a learning disability can be tough, and quite often, a lot of attention is focused on the things that having a learning disability can hinder you from doing. Having a learning disability should no longer be seen as a barrier that will stop you from achieving what you want to do. In 2019 there…

Protecting Your Privacy

To keep up with the huge amount of digital data being created, a new Data Protection law called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)  will come into force across Europe from May 25, 2018. GDPR alters how organisations like disability Equality NW can collect, store and use the information of anyone who has been in contact…

Tackling Hate Crime – Lancashire Leads the Way

Leading Disability Rights campaigner, Stephen Brookes syasthat Lancashire is leading the way in dealing with hate crime. He noted that innovative work with “Third Party Reporting Centres,” such as Disability Equaliy NW, means thatLancashire Constabulary are performing particularly well in comparison to their counterparts across the country Stephen was speaking at a Disability Hate Crime…

Join our facebook group

Disability Equality Nw’s Facebook group is a great place to get and give peer support, find out the latest news about issues facing disabled people and their campaigns for equal human rights to become a reality. Join today at: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=94427530295&ref=br_rs or search under groups for Disability Equality (nwLtd)