News Archive
Safeguarding
Issued: 25 February 2021, 9am
Does your safeguarding policy fully protect you and the vulnerable adults in your care? Safeguarding …
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Registration for COVID-19 vaccine for disability staff now open
Issued: 12 February 2021, 3pm
Registration for front line disability workers to be vaccinated is now open, via this HSE portal. …
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Connecting Universal Access Groups: A Digital Dawn
Issued: 8 February 2021, 12pm
During 2020 DFI’s Community Development team held 1 National and 4 Regional Universal Access Network meetings with 38 …
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Local decisions that affect people with disabilities and Disability organisations
Issued: 8 February 2021, 10am
Local decisions include how local, national, and EU funding is spent in your community on Housing Employment Education …
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Wicklow County Council Internal Disability and Inclusion Steering Committee.
Issued: 3 February 2021, 11am
December 2020, the elected members of Wicklow County Council voted to ratify a new internal Disability and Inclusion …
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Impact of Covid-19 on People with Disabilities in County Kerry
Issued: 2 February 2021, 2pm
People with the lived experience of disability in Kerry were facilitated to come together by the Disability Federation …
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DFI urge Government to prioritise people with disabilities for COVID-19 vaccines
Issued: 10 December 2020, 12pm
DFI are disappointed that the provisional COVID-19 vaccine allocation announced by the Department of Health does not …
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Help Shape DFI's Future – Short Strategic Plan Survey
Issued: 24 November 2020, 6pm
DFI is working with Mary Carroll from Growth Potential to develop our next Strategic Plan. As a federation, DFI wants …
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Access for All Regional Network Meetings
Issued: 10 November 2020, 11am
DFI invite you to join us online for the Regional Network meetings for Access and Disability Interest Groups from …
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This Dec. 3rd don’t hide your support for disability!
Issued: 6 November 2020, 4pm
Not all disabilities are visible, in fact as many as 80% of disabilities are invisible. That means 514,505 people in …
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Cost of disability doesn't add up
Issued: 21 October 2020, 10am
Opinion piece for The Times Ireland Edition, published Oct. 21,2020 Readers of this paper will be familiar with medical …
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