@HeatherFisken

Head of Policy & Research @InclusionScot. Tweeting in a personal capacity about equality, human rights and maybe a bit of food and hills and being a golf newbie

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Joined January 2021
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📢 We're inviting #disabled women & women with long-term health conditions to join our focus groups. Share your employment experiences to help shape our research project aimed at influencing future policy developments around the labour market. 👉Learn more tinyurl.com/tv5mtrf3
Poster graphic with Close the Gap logo and the following text: Call for participants: Focus groups with disabled women and women with long-term health conditions on their experiences of the workplace. Online focus group on 21st September from 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm. In-person focus group in Glasgow on 23rd September from 4 pm to 5.30 pm. Participants will receive a £30 voucher for their involvement. Support with travel and childcare costs is available. Please contact us to inform us of any additional support you require in order to participate. Contact Iona Brown at ibrown@closethegap.org.uk or call 07912203626.

ALT Poster graphic with Close the Gap logo and the following text: Call for participants: Focus groups with disabled women and women with long-term health conditions on their experiences of the workplace. Online focus group on 21st September from 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm. In-person focus group in Glasgow on 23rd September from 4 pm to 5.30 pm. Participants will receive a £30 voucher for their involvement. Support with travel and childcare costs is available. Please contact us to inform us of any additional support you require in order to participate. Contact Iona Brown at [email protected] or call 07912203626.

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TODAY: Four Disabled People’s Organisations: @DisRightsUK @disabilityni @DisabilityWales & @InclusionScot will address the Covid-19 Public Inquiry. Bhatt Murphy instructing Danny Friedman KC & Anita Davies @matrixchambers. Live coverage & updates follow. youtube.com/@UKCovid-19Inqui…
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Lucy Adams@BBCLucyAdams15 Aug 2022
One patient with a learning disability has been recorded as a delayed discharge ⁩for more than 8 years. One has been in hospital for 25 years ⁦@calumjmckay⁩ ⁦@BBCScotlandNews⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-6…

The patients locked in secure hospitals for decades

Fifteen Scots with learning disabilities and autism have been living in hospitals for 20 years.

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Sam Smith 🕷@samcchange15 Aug 2022
A national scandal many are unaware of. We can do better than this. Create relational support that works for the person, honours the wisdom and knowledge of families, draws on professional skills and respects and protects human rights. #BetterIsPossible
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@BBCScotlandNews15 Aug 2022
Scots with learning disabilities and autism have been locked in secure hospitals and psychiatric wards for decades, a BBC investigation finds bbc.in/3PoU1S9
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Bureau of Investigative Journalism find serious failures with system of support for adaptations for disabled Scots, leaving thousands in unsuitable homes. As @InclusionScot's Susie Fitton makes clear this is a human rights issue for disabled people bit.ly/3KkszTT

Thousands of disabled people left in unsuitable housing

Hayden* says he is exhausted. Since 2019, he’s been fighting to get a ramp installed to enter his home. The 31-year-old wheelchair user applied to his local council for funding to build a ramp that...

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Have you completed the Census for your household yet? It is due on 1st May. census.gov.scot/. We'd like to know if you have had faced any barriers with completing it. Get in touch with us here or email [email protected] by Thursday.
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💥 NEW REPORT 💥 Today we publish research into single parents' experiences of the #ChildMaintenanceService. It's based on a survey, case studies from our helpline + parents using our local services. The resounding message? The CMS needs to change. ➡️ opfs.org.uk/get-involved/new…
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Laura Millar@Laura_FifeG26 Apr 2022
Replying to @OPFS @Daily_Record
Such a critical area that affects many lone parent families, and is a key lever to mitigating child poverty. Great article to raise awareness.
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At midnight tonight the consultation to replace the Human Rights Act with a 'Bill of Frights' (sic) closes. Shameful day for the UK and a sad one for Scotland.
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EVAW Coalition@EVAWuk8 Mar 2022
The #HumanRightsAct is central to the fight to end violence against women! It enables us to challenge the state's failures to protect us and uphold our rights. Today on #InternationalWomensDay, we resist plans to scrap it ➡️bit.ly/3IPzKDl #IWD2022
A woman at a protest and text that reads "defend our human rights act"

ALT A woman at a protest and text that reads "defend our human rights act"

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It's International Women's Day. Disabled women #BreakTheBias every day. 'We're individuals with skills, talents and life experience'. Today @InclusionScot gives evidence to @SP_EHRCJ on women's unfair responsibility for unpaid care and domestic work.
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So @JohnSwinney @scotgovFM @HumzaYousaf, as someone at high clinical risk who doesn’t want to spend her life stuck in her house, who despairs at how we’re being abandoned, I’ve had a go at drafting an outline strategy for a safe, fully #InclusiveNewNormal. Hope helpful.
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RMT Scotland@RMT_Scotland31 Jan 2022
Today, RMT members marched to Bute House. We’re demanding: ✅ No cuts to jobs and services on Scotland’s railways ✅ A just transition for offshore workers ✅ No privatisation of CalMac.
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📣 Please RT thanks! Recruitment now open for members of the new SNAP Leadership Panel. Members will work together as equals to finalise, launch and oversee Scotland's next National Action Plan for #HumanRights. Find out more and apply now at snaprights.info/leadership-p…
“Could you help shape the future of human rights in Scotland” white snap logo on dark blue background, www dot snap rights dot info

ALT “Could you help shape the future of human rights in Scotland” white snap logo on dark blue background, www dot snap rights dot info

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NEW: We have today launched a call for evidence as part of our new inquiry into poverty and stigma. We want to hear from people and organisations from across Scotland on the impacts, causes of and solutions to poverty-related stigma. Read more here: povertyalliance.org/cpg-stig…
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Disabled people need a voice @COP26. Where's the sign language, captions, accessible signage? @UNFCCC. Please fix it for Friday am Disability Rights session. @KatherineLofts
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Together 🧡@together_sacr6 Oct 2021
You can read the letter sent by 65+ organisations asking @scotgov to address the @UKSupremeCourt's concerns & offering support to ensure the Implementation Programme continues at pace. Read the letter here: bit.ly/2YsT5aU #UNCRCScotland
Together 🧡@together_sacr6 Oct 2021
Replying to @together_sacr
This decision does not change the commitment MSPs made to children, nor the support for children’s rights to be made law. This is why, over 65 organisations across Scotland have written to @JohnSwinney, @haughey_clare to urge @scotgov to address the Court’s concerns quickly!
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NADP@NADP_official29 Sep 2021
Disappointing that @Ofcom has yet to comment on the current lack of or poor quality of #subtitles on @BBCOne, @Channel4 & @channel5_tv since the incident at @RedBee last Saturday. Many vulnerable people who rely on TV subtitles are being disconnected as a result @LilianGreenwood
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Disabled people are being left without critical support as their carers and personal assistants can't reach them without fuel. @johnswinney can they get priority until this crisis is over?
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