09.00 – 09.30 Registration and refreshments
session chaired by Tim Bush from Unite
09.30 – 09.40 Welcome – Councillor Nick Forbes, Leader Newcastle City Council
09.40 – 10.10 Welfare Reform and Personal Independence Payments – Steve Winyard, RNIB and Hardest Hit Coalition
10.10 – 10.30 Education reform and disability – Joel Hamilton, young disabled activist and Mr Stonehouse
10.30 – 11.00 Keynote speaker – Anne McGuire MP, Shadow Minister for Disabled People
11.00 – 11.20 Break – refreshments available in workshop rooms
11.20 – 12.20 Workshop Session 1 – see Workshop Programme for details
12.20 – 13.00 Lunch – served in the Banqueting Hall
session chaired by Clare Williams from UNISON
13.00 – 13.30 Disability Hate Crime and Police funding cuts – Ian Mearns MP and ARCH
13.30 – 14.30 Workshop Session 2 – see Workshop Programme for details
14.30 – 14.50 Break – refreshments will be available in workshop rooms
14.50 – 15.50 Workshop Session 3 – see Workshop Programme for details
session chaired by Sally Young from NCVS
15.50 – 16.10 Implications of wider government policy – Angela Hamilton, UNISON
16.10 – 16.25 Question and answer panel session
16.25 – 16.30 Next steps and close – Henri Murison, RNIB
Workshop Session Program
- Access to Health Services and protection of specialist posts
- Remploy – focus on North Tyneside
- Remploy – focus Ashington
- Local cuts and their impact on disabled people
- Equality act and disability
- Mental Health and the cuts
- Social Care Reform
- Welfare Reform Including film from Shoot Your Mouth Off
I would like to have attended this – but it starts before my concessionary bus pass [ which I have BECAUSE I AM DISABLED!!] operates (9.30am)
A CONFERENCE ABOUT DISABILITY MUST BE ACCESSIBLE TO DISABLED PEOPLE!!!!