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East Renfrewshire Disability Action: ten years on

  • Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
  • Type: News Item
  • Published: 4th July 2022
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East Renfrewshire Disability Action addresses social, physical, attitudinal, cultural and economic barriers experienced by disabled people.

East Renfrewshire Disability Action (EDRA) was launched at the Barriers and Bridges Community Conference event in March 2011.

EDRA addresses social, physical, attitudinal, cultural and economic barriers experienced by disabled people.

Since forming in 2011, EDRA has:

  • Worked in partnership and formed a sub-committee with Self Directed Support East Renfrewshire to highlight and address the closure of the Independent Living Fund. This led to EDRA proposing a Scottish Independent Living Fund, which was achieved in July 2015.
  • Campaigned to address the lack of wheelchair accessible taxis in East Renfrewshire (this link will take you away from our website).
  • Organised and facilitated two successful and well received training sessions for third sector organisations and individuals in the Turn2Us basic benefit calculator.
  • challenged the local community Health and Social Care Partnership’s increased charges to the Blue Badge scheme.
  • Successfully stopped a proposed price increase to the Holiday Programme for Disabled Children.
  • Worked in partnership with East Renfrewshire Carers to hold a Hustings event for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election and the local council elections in 2012.
  • Contributed to various consultations at local and national level.

Find out more about EDRA (this link will take you away from our website).

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