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The art of tinkering

18/7/19 CCS Disability Action Disabled People Employment 0 Comments 5 min

Tinkering with ideas for new products and services can be a great way to explore whether self-employment is a viable option....

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Sam Murray

Urgent fix for Carer Support needed

29/5/19 Accessibility Budget Policy CCS Disability Action Disability Disabled Youth Government Support 1 Comment 2 min

Important reforms for payments for caregivers of disabled children and youth have been halted. Samuel Murray, National Policy Coordinator CCS Disability...

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Guest blogger

Disability – not the end of the world!

7/3/19 CCS Disability Action Disability Disabled People Leadership Mythbusting Physical disability Social Model of Disability 0 Comments 2 min

Disabled woman Jacqui Carlson asks, do all disabled people need to be fixed? People seem to assume that having a disability...

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Guest blogger

What I Daniel Blake can teach us about New Zealand’s benefit system

26/2/19 CCS Disability Action Disability Disabled People Government Valuing people Welfare Reform 0 Comments 5 min

A couple of years ago I had the harrowing experience of seeing I Daniel Blake, an impassioned film by Ken Loach...

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Phoebe Grace Eden-Mann

The invisible youth

15/2/19 Budget Policy CCS Disability Action Depression Disability Disabled Youth Mental Health Mental Illness Suicide Wellbeing 0 Comments 3 min

For years, mental health and wellbeing has been the political hot potato that no one wanted to talk about. With the...

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Phoebe Grace Eden-Mann

Muddling through models of disability

20/12/18 Accessibility CCS Disability Action Disability New to disability Social Model of Disability 0 Comments 3 min

I am coming to the end of my fourth week as the national policy intern, here at CCS Disability Action. It’s...