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Google has a new dedicated disability support team, which can be contacted via email. The support team will be available Monday through Friday to answer any questions you may have about accessibility features within Google products, general accessibility and assistive technology questions.

Message from Bexley Council: meeting to explore ideas and collaboration between organisations to help implement Individual Service Funds for adult learning disabled clients.

Another BSL signed performance is coming up next month at the Pleasance theatre. Jump Out Of Skin is a poetic, funny, hopeful and desperate new play from Slovakian writer Zuza Ferenczova, directed by Tony Casement. The performance on Sunday 15th October @ 17:30 will be BSL Interpreted.

National Hate Crime Awareness Week runs from Saturday 14th October to Saturday 21st October. Here’s how DDPOs can get involved, including organising events, ordering resources, finding events near you and promoting National Hate Crime Awareness Week on social media, plus details of the key remembrance event at St Pauls on Sunday 15th October.

Merton Centre for Independent Living (Merton CIL) is looking for an experienced Adviser to join our Advice and Advocacy Team. You will primarily be providing Benefits and Money Advice and Casework, but there will also be opportunities in Housing and Community Care.

2 vacancies now open: Casework Coordinator/domestic violence advocate (26 hours per week); Sessional caseworker: supporting disabled people at risk from gangs and others (5 days per month).

Find out if you might be experiencing disability discrimination at work and what to do about it with this quiz, developed by researchers from Cardiff University.

We are working with the University of Essex on a piece of research into the impact of conditionality and sanctions on Disabled people. We are looking for people who are currently in the ESA WRAG who would be happy to be interviewed. A £20 voucher will be given to each participant to say thank you.

How can we reduce violence and end deaths in prisons? This free all-day conference will bring together experts in criminal justice, prison reform, politicians, academics, officials and journalists to seek solutions. Lunch provided.

Drunken Chorus invites you to an afternoon of talks / discussions around support and networks for organisations and artists with disabilities – part of our mini-festival A Bit Of A Do – at TMRW in Croydon on 21 September.