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If you would like to recommend any additional links, please contact us.
- British Film Institute - the catalogue 'White sticks, wheels and crutches: Disability and the moving image' offers new perspectives, advice and ideas on disability imagery for film and TV programmers. See the National Film & TV Archive (NFTVA) section.
- Broadcasting and Creative Industries Disability Network (BCIDN) - helps to increase the participation of disabled people in the UK film & broadcasting industries. Members include the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, Sky, S4C and PACT and are all committed to ensuring better representation of disabled people in programming, employing more disabled people in production teams and making programming accessible to the widest possible audience. Oona King, Head of Diversity at C4, has been the BCIDN Chair since September 2009, Clare Morrow is the Network Manager and Liza Fletcher is the Administrator. They can be contacted via e-mail liza.fletcher@efd.org.uk. For more information, visit the website link above. The BCIDN is part of the Employers Forum on Disability.
- Directgov - Disabled People - links to information on government services for people with disabilities.
- Equality and Human Rights Commission - works to promote the rights of disabled people.
- Employers Forum on Disability - focuses on how disability affects employers and service providers.
- Images of Disability - information from the Department of Work and Pensions on the Government's commitment to including more disabled people in government advertising. The site offers ideas and guidance about portraying disability.
- National Statistics - gives statistics on different disabilities and lifestyle issues.
Specific disabilities
Below is a sample of just some of the organisations that exist to support disabled people.
- British Deaf Association
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Mental Health Foundation
- Royal National Institute of the Blind
- Royal National Institute for Deaf People
- Scope - the charity for people with cerebral palsy (England & Wales only).
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