Category: Advocacy

Supported Employment

Supported Employment Supported employment is a model of assistance that helps people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups find and retain paid employment. It typically involves various forms of tailored...

Increase in disability allowance

Increase in disability allowance The Gibraltar disability allowance, also known as the Disability Living Allowance (DLA), provides financial support to individuals with disabilities.. SNAG advocates for the DLA to be...

A new St Bernadette’s

A new St Bernadette’s Gibraltar urgently needs a larger, newer, and more up to date St Bernadette’s Centre. The centre is quickly becoming too small to accommodate all the service...

Better contracts for care workers

Better contracts for care workers The use of private care companies is widespread, but we must ensure that when using these, the carers are provided with suitably stable employment contracts...

More Respite care & respite facilities

More Respite care & respite facilities An alarming number of families that have their Respite care paused, cancelled, changed, or stopped due to shortage of qualified carers, suitable venues, flat...

More capacity at St Martin’s School

More capacity at St Martin's School St Martins School is by the Government's own admission, already too small, so soon after being built. SNAG and the Gibraltar Government have clashed...

More early diagnosis and intervention

More early diagnosisand intervention We continue to advocate for the families in the catchment areas of St Joseph’s in the South District, St Bernard’s and St Pauls as all these...

Greater LSF provision (St Joseph’s, St Bernard, St Paul’s)

Greater LSF provision We continue to advocate for the families in the catchment areas of St Joseph’s in the South District, St Bernard’s and St Pauls as all these schools...

Shortage of Therapists in the GHA

Shortage of Therapists in the GHA The GHA’s shortage of speech and language therapists (SLTs) and occupational therapists (OTs) has significant implications for the development of children with autism and...