By Sarah Eckford, SNP campaigner A month or two ago, I heard about a campaign called the One in Five Campaign.  It is built on the premise that roughly 1 in 5 people in society have some kind of disability and this should be represented in areas of political representation, as well as within wider…

NUS Scotland, who represents around 500,000 students from Scotland’s colleges and universities, is making politics more accessible to disabled students today as they sign up to the One in Five campaign. One In Five, the cross party campaign working to get better representation of disabled people in Politics and make our Politics and it’s institutions…

By Hannah Bettsworth, Campaigner and Liberal Democrat My disability is an invisible one – dyspraxia, also known as Developmental Co-ordination Disorder, a specific learning difficulty. The single most common thing I get asked is ‘is that like dyslexia?’ The answer is – no, not really. It’s part of the same group of disorders, but the person who…