Home | About us | News & Events | Information | Directories | Services

Welcome to the UPDATE website

We provide a comprehensive disability information service for Scotland by:

• Providing organisations and agencies with a full range of disability related information that is relevant to Scotland
  
  
• Providing subscribing member organisations and agencies with cost-effective support services and resources that facilitate good practice and builds capacity
  
  
• Providing members of the public with general information and accurate contact details of appropriate local/specialist organisations
  
  
• Encouraging and supporting good practice in disability information and advice service

UPDATE NEWS

Emergency Budget 2010 - Read the UPDATE FAQ

UPDATE's FAQ answers your big questions following the government's controvertial new emergency budget.

UPDATE receive a grant from Awards for All Scotland

UPDATE is delighted to announce that we have received a grant from Awards for All Scotland.

UPDATE Board of Management – vacancies for voluntary directors

Are you interested in helping to promote and develop disabled people’s access to information in Scotland ?  

Would you like to be involved in the work of Scotland’s National Disability Information Service?

Membership

Do you provide disability information or advice? Do you spend hours trying to find information, rather than with your clients? UPDATE can help! - check out our Membership Services.  (Memberships from £100 per annum)

New features! Check out our Disability Links and Disability Factsheets sections

Looking for general disability related organisations, see our greatly expanded Disability Links section. New for April 2010 - Disability Factsheets

Scottish Formats Resource - 2010 - Directory of Accessible Information Providers

Looking to produce your information in alternative formats such as braille, audio, easy read and different languages, check out our Scottish Formats Resource

Transcription Service

Do you need information produced in different formats. We offer a fast, professional and cost-effective transcription service. Members of UPDATE receive a 50% discount. For more information, please see our Transcription section.

2010 is the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion

The European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion was formally launched in Glasgow on 22 March

2010. To keep about to date with events in the UK and in Europe, please the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion website.

LOCAL ADVICE SERVICES

Looking for local disability information and advice, see our online directories