Stronger Together -
Become A Member
YCRDF is a user led-forum and operates from the perspective of disabled people.
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YCRDF is a user led forum, from the perspective of disabled people, and membership is open to the following:
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• disabled people and their family/carers, who live in Ryedale and the North Yorkshire Coast area, including people with physical disabilities and sensory disabilities.
The YCRDF will use a broad and inclusive definition of people with physical and sensory impairments:
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• people with physical impairments, whether or not their condition is congenital, acquired or progressive.
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• people with sensory impairment (including visually impaired and blind people, deaf people and people with a hearing impairment, and deafblind people)
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• people with serious ill-health and/or long-term conditions.
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• representatives of disability organisations that provide a service or support to people who live in Ryedale and the North Yorkshire Coast area.
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• representatives of local statutory, health and voluntary organisations.
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• people with an interest in disability issues in Ryedale and the North Yorkshire Coast area.
To help to achieve
the above aims,
YCRDF members will:
• Contribute to constructive discussions and provision of feedback to service providers
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• Where possible represent wider groups of disabled people and feedback to these groups as well as raise concerns from those wider groups
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• Raise issues of importance to disabled people agreed at the YCRDF at local forums and at the North Yorkshire Disability Forum
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• Promote the YCRDF to other disabled people, other organisations and businesses as appropriate
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• Encourage other disabled people to get involved in the YCRDF
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• Represent the views and concerns of disabled people to influence policy and practice
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• Build partnerships with local groups/organisations/businesses to share information and work together
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• Think about the solutions as well as the problems
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• Meet quarterly as a minimum
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• Find a chairperson from within the membership and there is a strong preference that this should be someone with direct experience of disability. This post could be a shared position as appropriate. If there is no one with direct experience of disability willing to chair the forum then other members will be considered.