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Gay couples will be allowed to marry in church under new laws to be announced this week. It will end the ban on civil partnerships being conducted by priests or other religious officials and permit...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has just published new guidance to help public authorities in England and non-devolved bodies in Scotland and Wales prepare for the new equality duty that...

Interesting idea from SCIE - a wiki site building knowledge on what makes an accessible event. Until March, you can go and add your view and change that of others on their wiki. The idea is that...

The National Lottery Awards 2011 Deadline for entries: 5pm Friday 18 February. The National Lottery Awards are an annual search to find the UK's favourite Lottery-funded projects. Lottery players...

More than £820,000 funding has been awarded to Unlimited, the groundbreaking London 2012 programme celebrating arts and culture by disabled and deaf artists, in the latest round of major...

ADA inc has a flexible package of Equalities Act training aimed at arts and cultural organisations that is tried, tested and ready to go! Its been described as informative, fun and factual - with...

This from The Stage last week: Disability charity Scope is launching a nationwide campaign to assess and improve disabled access in UK theatres. As part of Scope’s Stage and Screen campaign,...

Good quicky summary here from the Telegraph of six things employers need to know - worth using it as the basis for a quick pub-style quiz at the next team...

I was on Facebook last night and became increasingly amazed by people's response to the airing of this programme - the bigotry people were expressing towards gypsies and travellers was...

After much discussion and debate, The Equality Bill finally received Royal Assent on 8th of April 2010 and formally became The Equality Act 2010. The Government Equalities Office has released the...

The Independent Street Arts Network (ISAN) launched the ISAN Access Toolkit: making outdoor arts accessible to all in March 2010. ISAN worked with Attitude is Everything to develop this Access...

Some light relief to contrast with your hard work! This is quite a good free quiz covering quite a lot of ground (I disagree with them about the last question though!) Why not give it a try and see...

Thinking of producing an access guide? It can be hard to find good examples of access guides so how about an international site dedicated to the science and museum sector that has a best practice...

Time to Change is a four year project designed to challenge the stigma, discrimination and isolation experienced by those with mental health problems. They’ve just produced a great brochure...

There is now a dedicated service to get you the UK’s most important disability-related news stories straight to your in box each week. Its called Disability News Service and is run by John...

This is an interesting one. There is a castle in Český Krumlov, in the Czech Republic and a UNESCO site that, along with other local places of interest, museums and galleries, can be...

Go and have a look at what's happening in Scotland. There is a huge amount of disability dance activity occurring north of the boarder at the moment. Disabled dancer and choreographer Caroline...

Great new TED video... The thesaurus might equate "disabled" with synonyms like "useless" and "mutilated," but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word. Defying these...

Get A Plan is about supporting arts organisations to be inclusive - and that might mean you want to involve disabled artists or disability related companies. And therefore you might want to find out...

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