What is the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on disabled people in Sheffield?
The Healthier Communities and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee is made up of local councillors and representatives, who discuss areas like public health, NHS services, and Adult Social Care. You can find out more about them here.
For their meeting in March 2021, they asked us and Disability Sheffield to share what we know about the specific impact of Covid-19 on disabled people. We know that the pandemic has not affected people equally, and people with a disability have been impacted disproportionately.
We hope that this will encourage a wider conversation about support for disabled people and greater equity moving forward.
What are the key issues?
We reported a huge range of experiences, which broadly fell into the following themes:
- Health inequalities
- Impact of Covid-19 restrictions
- Barriers to accessing services
- Changes to services and arranging support
- Access to vaccincations
- Impact of changes to the physical environment
- Disabled people having a voice
We also made several recommendations to decision makers, to improve the experiences of disabled people in Sheffield.
Downloads
Find out more in the full briefing below:
You can view additional papers from the Scrutiny meeting, and view the webcast online:
