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Speaking Up

Our Social Policy Work - Supporting Deaf and Disabled people to speak up!

Our Policy and Strategy service works with Deaf and Disabled people to build their confidence around speaking up and make change happen on a local level. Our work is evidence based and integrated with all our services. 

You can read more about our current member led and collaborative policy work here.

And you can read more about our current, ongoing and past policy work below:

  1. The effect of the coronavirus pandemic on Deaf and Disabled people in Merton
  2. #makemertonaccesible - Supporting Deaf and Disabled people to speak up about access issues in Merton
  3. Housing for Deaf and Disabled people in Merton
  4. 'Starting to Stop It' - A progress report on disability hate crime in Merton
  5. Independent Living Toolkit - Coming Soon
  6. Black Lives Matter
  7. Choice, Control and Independent Living - A review of social care in Merton
  8. Scrap Benefit Sanctions 
  9. Improve the Benefits System

Past Policy and Strategy Work: 

  • Policy and Strategy Work in 2018 - 19
  • Policy and Strategy Work in 2017 - 18
  • Policy and Strategy Work in 2012 - 17

Merton Centre for Independent Living - Merton CIL

Telephone: 020 3397 3119 | SMS: 0779 671 2502 | Email: info@mertoncil.org.uk | Social Media: @MertonCIL

Registered Charity Number: 1152825

Company Number: 7645926

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