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Human Rights Weekly News: 18 March 2022
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We celebrated World Social Work Day 2022 with a workshop!
On Thursday 17th March 2022, we joined social workers in Leeds and Wakefield for a workshop focusing on rights, responsibilities and possible reform. Participants told us they “really enjoyed” the session and we had a great time discussing human rights in real-life contexts.
We spoke at a Learning Disability England conference about Government consultations
On Wednesday 16th March 2022, our Head of Policy & Programmes, Carlyn, spoke at a Learning Disability England conference about Government consultations and the barriers to responding to them.
Carlyn talked about the work BIHR is doing to influence a human-rights based approach to consultation and shared our new resource to help people challenge consultations that don’t comply with equality requirements.
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