BDEF is an organisation of Disabled people who live, work or study in the Bristol area of England.
The Community Development Team in Bristol City Council is currently advertising 4 Community Development Practitioner roles and they would like to have applications from members of equalities groups.
To find out more visit their job webpage (https://www.bristol.gov.uk/web/jobs ) and search using the word “community” to find more information and apply – closing date is Sunday 4 October.
As part of the government’s coordinated response to Coronavirus, NHS Test and Trace has developed the new NHS COVID-19 app.
It is now available for download to all residents of England and Wales. We strongly recommend that everyone over the age of 16 downloads and uses it.
Download the ‘NHS COVID-19’ app from the App Store or Google Play. There is more information at https://covid19.nhs.uk
The app will help you to understand and manage your personal risk and reduce the spread of Coronavirus. The more people who use it, the more effective it will be.
The app requires operating system 13.5 or above if you have an Apple iPhone. It requires Android 6.0 or above if you have an Android phone. If your smartphone is not compatible, you can still access full support from the NHS Test and Trace service.
NHS Test and Trace
All individuals over the age of 16 who are registered with a GP in England and have provided an email address to the NHS are receiving this email. Some people will receive a text message instead, if an email address has not been provided.
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The new NHS Covid-19 app for Apple and Android devices has launched today and can be downloaded from your app store. The app is free and is part of the NHS Test and Trace service in England and Wales.
The app has a number of tools to protect you, including contact tracing, local area alerts and venue check-in via QR codes.
The Thomas Poklinton Trust have been involved in ensuring that the app is as accessible as possible for blind and partially sighted people.
If you need access to information about the app in large print, braille or another format, you can request it by emailing nhscovid-19accessibilityissue@nhsba.nhs.uk .
The link below takes you to a BBC news story with more information.
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Covid-19 information videos in community languages including English http://ow.ly/tQF350BezGf
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (BNSSG CCG), with Community Access Support Service (CASS) in partnership with community groups and volunteers, has made two videos in more than ten community languages about Covid-19 and the lockdown.
These were made to address the need for information for non-English-speaking people in the community who did not have access to reliable information about the outbreak in their own languages.
The videos are:
• Protecting others – with a number of key messages about social distancing, gatherings, where you can go and so on
• Mental health – about looking after your mental health and wellbeing at this time.
The languages are:
Pashto, Kurdish Sorani, Arabic, Farsi, Albanian, Urdu, Bengali, Tigrinya, Somali, Punjabi, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Turkish [please note the videos in Albanian and Trigrinya are not available yet, so any help to find volunteers in both languages would be appreciated].
We hope these videos are helpful and that you will share them with relevant members of the community.
CASS has been working closely with @BNSSG_CCG and local volunteers to help create 2 Covid19 videos, each in Bristol’s key community languages including English. One is on Protecting Yourself, and one on Looking after Mental Health.
Please watch and share more widely http://ow.ly/tQF350BezGf
Translated text used for the videos will be available shortly, please get in touch via info@cassbristol.org to request hard copy printed materials for distribution out into the community.
News Update No1. September 2020
Welcome to our latest update, and apologies that we have not uploaded
on since early August. Staff annual leave meant this was not possible.
Consultation on How to Stop Parking on Pavements
The government is consulting on whether pavement parking should be
banned. This in response to evidence that it significantly impacts on the
lives of pedestrians with vision and mobility impairments, those with
pushchairs and buggies, young children, etc.
They are asking for your views on three options. None of the options
would apply to emergency vehicles, delivery vehicles loading and
unloading things (for a maximum of 20minutes), refuse trucks, street
cleaners, urgent of emergency health care practitioners (whilst working)
such as midwives, vehicles connected to essential work to roads,
pavements, utilities (water, power, etc to buildings).
Option 1 – Improve the current system
Keep things as they are but make it a bit easier for local authorities to
put restrictions on specific roads using the existing Traffic Regulation
Order (TRO) system, as creating new TROs is a lot of work at the
moment. The main advantage is that the government would only need
to make the process of getting a TRO a lot easier. The main
disadvantage of keeping things the same is that the level of pavement
parking would not improve by very much.
Option 2 – To give local authorities the power to take
action (fines) against ‘unnecessary obstruction’ caused by
pavement parking.
The main advantage is that this option would enable local authorities to
hand out fines, without the government having to ban pavement parking
across the whole country. The main disadvantage is that it would be
difficult to define when a parking obstruction is ‘unnecessary’, so fines
are likely to be challenged quite frequently. This would, among other
things, put local authorities off taking action because of the cost to them
of lots of appeals against fines.
Option 3 – A national ban on pavement parking.
This option would introduce a general rule against pavement parking
except where a local authority gives permission for it on specific roads or
residential areas e.g. emergency vehicles could not get through.
This option would extend a ban that already applies across London.
One advantage of this is that it would be much clearer to motorists
where they could, and couldn’t, park on the pavement. Another is that
decisions could be made locally about where there is a need for
pavement parking.
The main disadvantage is that it would take a lot of work to identify
which roads/areas the local authority should give permission for
pavement parking, which would also be expensive.
A new law would also need to include a period of time for motorists to
get used to the new law.
To respond to this consultation, go to:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/managing-pavement-parking/pavement-parking-options-for-change#how-to-respond
We want to make sure that the government hears the views of Disabled
people in the Bristol area. So we can do this, we need you to tell us
which option you think is best.
Please email, telephone or reply on our social media, telling us
which option you think is best for Disabled people and others who are
put at risk by pavement parking.
Email: bristoldef@gmail.com
Telephone: 01179 140528
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bristoldef
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Coronavirus News 5th September 2020
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (BNSSG CCG) – which is responsible for spending our local NHS funding – has created coronavirus information videos in a range of community languages, such as Arabic, Bengali and Cantonese. You can find them on its YouTube channel by clicking on this: coronavirus information in community languages to find a video in your language – including English. One is about how to Protecting Yourself, and one is about Looking after Mental Health.
Translations of the text used for the videos will be available soon. If you would like please get in touch viainfo@cassbristol.orgto request hard copy printed materials for distribution out into the community.
Free counselling is available to people who are shielding as a result of the pandemic, particularly those who are:
older or Disabled people;
part of a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic community; or
living in Avonmouth, Barton Hill, East Hillfields, Filwood, Hartcliffe & Withywood, Knowle West, Lawrence Hill, Lawrence Weston, Lockleaze, Southmead, St. Pauls, or Whitchurch Park.
The service is available from September to December 2020. You can self-refer, or be referred by a family member or an organisation you are in touch with. Email counselling@bristolmind.org.uk, or telephone 01179 800 370, to be sent a registration form.
For more information on this service, go to: http://bristolmind.org.uk/
Stop Press Social gatherings of more than six people will be banned from Monday 14 September
Limits on the number of people you can see socially are changing. From Monday 14 September, when meeting friends and family you do not live with you must not meet in a group of more than 6 indoors or outdoors.
From 14 September – when the new rules apply – it will be against the law to meet people you do not live with in a group larger than 6 (unless you are meeting as a household or support bubble). The police will have the powers to enforce these legal limits, including to issue fines.
There will be exceptions where groups can be larger than 6 people, including: – where everyone lives together or is in the same support bubble, or to continue existing arrangements where children do not live in the same household as both their parent;- at work, and voluntary or charitable services;
Please visit this website for more details of when the new rule does, and doesn’t apply: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-meeting-with-others-safely-social-distancing/coronavirus-covid-19-meeting-with-others-safely-social-distancing
The government will be providing more information on the changes on Monday 14th September.
However, please do not get too anxious about the rise in the number of cases. For now, the new cases are mostly among young people and those who have travelled, with the number of deaths still low.