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The Disability Advice Project is a Torfaen
based charity that serves the needs of disabled people, their families
and carers in our community. The Project also operates in the surrounding
areas of Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire,
Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Swansea in South Wales.
The Project is run by a highly skilled, experienced and
dedicated team made up of unpaid and paid members of staff, who all have
experience of being a disabled person or of caring for a disabled person.
In 2000 the project was awarded the Wales Training Award and in 2005 was
the winner of the National Training Award, which is the UK's most prestigious
award for training. The National Training Awards identify and celebrate
organisations and individuals that have achieved really outstanding business
and personal success through investment in training.
In March 2001 DAP achieved the Investors in People standard, one of only
3 voluntary organisations in the UK and the first in Wales. In January
2002 DAP was awarded the Community Legal Service Quality Mark. The Quality
Mark indicates to members of the public who need legal information, advice
and other help that they can rely on receiving a quality assured service.
Both awards have subsequently been maintained.
As we do not receive funding from local government, all donations from
clients and other individuals combined with charges for our access auditing
and training service are reinvested into the project and funds our free
welfare rights work.
Since April 1999, we have represented over 500 people at disability benefit
tribunals.
The Project is an independent charity that is a member
of Scope DIAL UK and affiliated to SCOPE.
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