Episode 5: Disabled Student Allowance

Access All Areas with Dermot and Felicity

This week on Access All Areas with Dermot and Felicity.
We look at some items in the news this week:
Disability Action's report into The Impact of COVID-19 on Disabled People in Northern Ireland
disabilityaction.org/news/report-now-available-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-disabled-people-in-ni
mywayaccess.com/new-decade-new-approach-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-disabled-people-in-northern-ireland

The main discussion this week is Disabled Student Allowance:
Zoom socials and specialist tech: starting uni online as a disabled student
Support and action the Exeter University Disability Campaign 2020 to stop discrimination
Cambridge SU launch #DemandSafe­Cambridge campaign calling for further action to keep students and staff safe next term
Coming out as Disabled: Felicity McKee
Disabled Students' Allowances: Over half of eligible students miss out
Student reform confusion ‘risks turning assessment system into PIP replica’
Coronavirus briefing note: Disabled students
'We're being fobbed off': why disabled students are losing out in lockdown
MPs and peers hear of ‘heart-breaking’ discrimination facing disabled students
Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs): What's available & how to apply
Personal news:
Dermot has a brief cameo in the new Bill and Ted: Face the Music film, in cinemas now.
Dermot’s excellent adventure
Dermot Devlin - 'Am I seeing things Dermot? No, that was me!'
Van Morrison writes a new song for anti-masking:
Coronavirus: Van Morrison lockdown protest songs 'dangerous'