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If you need support with general tasks, or can offer help to vulnerable people, get in touch with the Derby COVID Community Response Hub: Contact DerbyDirect on Tel: 01332 640000 or covidsupport@communityactionderby.org.uk

Two new email inboxes created by Council for Disabled Children

CDCquestions@ncb.org.uk – to ask questions about how coronavirus will impact on children and young people with SEND as well as other questions relating to the impact on families; the education, health, social care sectors; and the voluntary and community sector.

CDCresources@ncb.org.uk – to enable parent carers, sector professionals and practitioners to share resources, to support families of children and young people with SEND and practitioners across the disabled children’s sector.

It’s 2020, why are disabled people still being shut out of TV? Despite a few notable examples of representation – Liz Carr as Clarissa in Silent Witness and, more recently, George Robinson playing the first disabled character in hit Netflix show Sex Education, we are still overwhelmingly absent from our screens and public life in general.

It’s a difficult time out there, and for some of our young people with additional needs, even more confusing. Beyond Words are great books without text or complex language, and they have swiftly produced a book about the Corona virus, Corvid-19 funded by DHSC. Here is a link that will get you to the current black and white version whilst they work on the final colour version. t

Disability Horizons is looking for more disabled bloggers and social media influencers to work with them, to share their posts and be involved in projects with companies and organisations to raise awareness and promote inclusion. To find out more email: editor@disabilityhorizons.com