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This weeks media – 8th June 2020
Media posts
Queens Award for Disability Swimming
Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award given to volunteer groups across the British Isles goes to member charity Guernsey Disability Swimming ITV News article Two Guernsey charities have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary [...]
Access to information about Covid-19 and the States’ response to the emergency
Improving accessibility of States’ Media Briefings The States Media Briefings, which are live streamed on the States’ Facebook page, now have live auto captioning. This live captioning is not perfect: it lacks punctuation and sometimes interprets words incorrectly, but [...]
Positive changes for Carers allowance
Please find below the announcement from Employment and Social Secuirty (ESS) Change in the law will allow more carers to receive carer's allowance A recent change in the Law will allow carer's allowance to be received by a carer [...]
Capacity Legislation
On 26th February the States of Deliberation unanimously approved proposals to draft a new Capacity Law You can view media reports at: ITV news website Guernsey press article The States agreed on the 22nd April 2020 to approve the [...]
COVID-19 support for member charities
Dear member charities We appreciate this is a tough time for most member groups. Wether its locating volunteers, changing your device offering or concerns about fund raising. There are a number of local iniataives developing to try and ease [...]
AGC Supporting our community during this crisis
Association of Guernsey charities have released a new leaflet on supporting the community through the crisis You can view it here, please fee free to share Supporting our community during this crisis
Easy read document on Coronavirus
Mencap UK have produced this Easy read guide to Coronavirus. Please feel free to share. Easy read Info about covid19 31st March
#GuernseyTogether
We All Matter, Eh? (GDA) has partnered with the Association of Guernsey Charities (AGC) and many local charities, groups and businesses to deliver a number of key projects during the current pandemic. #StayConnected is supporting over 65's and vulnerable [...]
Health Update by Mike Read
At the media briefing on the 7th April Dr Peter Rabey the Hospital Medical Director gave a series of updates. He emphasised that the hospital is there for all people who need it. They have noticed that people have [...]
GDA Core update
Dear members It will not come as a surprise to many people that much of our core business has been paused while the community copes with CoViD-19. For now, matters like: The Disability and Inclusion Strategy Project [...]
A summary of the Discrimination proposals and an easy read version
The Committee for Employment & Social Security have submitted its policy letter on proposals for a new discrimination ordinance to cover discrimination on the grounds of disability, carer status and race in the first phase and to expand the [...]