Living with poverty in Africa and England

Josephine Mudzingwa Siziba moved to North Shields in Tyneside as a refugee 13 years ago.

Although seen as rich by her family in Africa, she and her husband live on the Meadow Well estate, one of the most deprived in Britain

Watch this BBC video

Source BBC News website 22nd May 2013

Young people 'prefer to read on screen'

Young people are now much more likely to prefer to read on a computer screen rather than a printed book or magazine, according to a UK survey.
Read more

Source BBC News website 16th May 2013

Talk: A film that challenges misconceptions about disability.

'Talk' is an award-winning 12 minute film which challenges misconceptions about disability in an entertaining way.

Part 1

Part 2

Notable dates

A list of Notable Dates and Links to Guides:

04 January 2013	World Braille Day
February	LGBT History Month
10 February 2013	Chinese New Year
20 February 2013	World Day of Social Justice
8 March 2013	International Women's Day
10 March 2013	Mother's Day
7 April 2013	Holocaust Memorial Day
21 May 2013	World Day for Cultural Diversity Dialogue & Development
June 2013	Gypsy, Romany & Travellers History Month
1-7 June 2013	Volunteers Week
10-16 June 2013	Carers Week
16 June 2013	Father's Day
22 July 2013	Parents' Day
24-28 September 2013	National Worklife Week
October 2013	Black History Month
1 October 2013	Older People's Day
7 October 2013	National Grandparent's Day
10 October 2013	World Homeless Day
10 October 2013	World Mental Health Day
22-28 October 2013	European Health & Safety Week
16 November 2013	International Day of Tolerance
20 November 2013	Transgender Day of Remembrance/Awareness
20 November 2013	Universal Children's Day
18-24 November 2013	Inter Faith Week
November 2013	Anti-Bullying Week
03 December 2013	International Day of Disability
10 December 2013	Human Rights Day

Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (2013). Notable dates. www.enei.org.uk.. Retrieved 15th May 2013, from http://www.enei.org.uk/pages/diversity-dates-and-guides.html

Vicious

Does Vicious mark the end of gay TV characters being invisible?

New sitcom Vicious features a camp gay couple as leads. It may feel like a throwback, but it shows how far TV has come, from John Inman's flouncing character in Are You Being Served? and presenters using 'gay' as an insult

Vicious stars Frances de la Tour, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Iwan Rheon. Photograph: Patrick Redmond

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Government strategy on ‘Social Justice Outcomes’

On 13 March 2012 the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published ‘Social Justice: transforming lives’. It explains the Government’s plans for giving individuals and families facing multiple disadvantages the support and tools they need to turn their lives around.

The Government’s ‘Social Justice Outcomes Framework’ was published in October 2012. It explains what the government wants to achieve and how it will measure success.

On 24 April 2013 the Government published ‘Social justice: transforming lives – one year on’. This progress report looks at how social justice principles influence service delivery at national and local level, in government and across the private and voluntary sectors.

The strategy includes action to:

• help troubled families turn their lives around
• improve mental health
• reduce child poverty and make sure that children are properly supported so that they complete their education
• make work pay, and help people to find and stay in work
• help people recover and become independent if things have gone wrong
• work with the voluntary, public and private sectors to deal more effectively with complex problems

Click here for ‘Social Justice: transforming lives. One year on’ (pdf)

Africa Day

You are invited to to Africa Day Celebrations at the Marriot Hotel, Northampton, on Saturday 25th May 2013.

Disability in Time and Place

‘Disability in Time and Place’ tells the story of disabled people’s lives through the history of thousands of buildings.

All the content has been translated into British Sign Language.

It's an excellent resource and is a nice way to find out about Disability History in an engaging and thought provoking way. Well worth a look.

Click here for link

The Equality Act Made Simple

Welcome to our Equality and Diversity Blog , which we are calling ED Quarter's Blog. We hope you find it useful.

Let's start off with a handy link.

The Equality Act - an easy to read document that explains what the Act is and what it does.

The new Equality Act took lots of separate laws and made one law. The intention was to make things easier to understand.

This law includes everyone; disabled people, older people, people with different religions, people from different communities, people with different coloured skin, plus lots of other groups of people.

Deaf Awareness Week

6th -12th May 2013

Deaf Awareness Week is a unique campaign in that so many different organisations participate, each able to promote their own work within the broad spectrum of deafness.

Deafness - some facts

•  1 in 6 people in the UK are deaf or hard of hearing 
•  More than 45,000 children in the UK are deaf
•  About 2 million people in the UK have hearing aids
•  Nearly 3.7 million people of working age have hearing loss, 
•  135,000 of them are severely or profoundly deaf