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About UPDATE Disability Information Scotland
UPDATE is Scotland’s National Disability Information Service. Our main objective is to improve the quality of life of disabled people and carers in Scotland, primarily by enabling information providers to offer accurate, relevant and accessible disability-related information.
Formed in 1999, UPDATE is user-led, a national voluntary organisation, a recognised Scottish charity and a company limited by guarantee providing a wide range of services both to information providers and individual disabled people in Scotland.
UPDATE promotes the rights of disabled people, their families and carers to have access to reliable, impartial and helpful information on relevant services, when it is needed. Being able to get the right information at the right time means that people are better informed about their options and creates potential for the greater social and economic involvement and independence of disabled people.
Our key aims are:
- To provide organisations and agencies throughout Scotland with a full range of reliable disability related information that is relevant to Scotland
- To provide subscribing member organisations and agencies with cost-effective central support and resources that facilitate good practice and help to build capacity
- To provide members of the public throughout Scotland with general disability information
- To provide members of the public with contact details of relevant services in their local area or to national specialist support organisations, where appropriate
- To encourage and support good practice in disability information and advice services
If we don't know, we know who does.
UPDATE STAFF
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Gail Wilson |
Manager |
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Rhonda McPhail |
Information Service Co-ordinator |
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Cathy Scott |
Information Officer |
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Claire Sharkie |
Information & Administration Worker |
GET IN TOUCH
While UPDATE primarily serves the needs of disability information providers, we are always happy to try and help anyone who needs disability-related information.
Hays Community Business Centre
4 Hay Avenue, Edinburgh, EH16 4AQ
0131 669 1600
info@update.org.uk
UPDATE is a registered Scottish charity (SCO30004). Also a Company Limited by Guarantee, registered in Scotland (SC199685).