BuDS recently carried out a survey of Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) in the South East of England, to find out how they are being impacted by Covid-19 and what precautions they are taking. The results are summarised below.
Questions 1-3 were free-fill questions, to give the names of the participating organisations, the person filling out the survey, and their contact details. We have chosen to not publish the results of these questions to protect the privacy of the participants.
Question 4: Is your DPO currently working as it did before the pandemic, without any Covid-19 precautions or changes of any sort in place?
Question 5: To what extent is your DPO currently working online versus face-to-face?
Question 6: Which precautions do you REQUIRE your staff and volunteers to take when working face-to-face? (tick all that apply)
Question 7: Which precautions do you RECOMMEND your staff and volunteers take when working face-to-face? (tick all that apply)
Question 8: Is your DPO currently working to any extent in a staffed office or other physical base?
Question 9: Which Covid-19 precautions do you use at your staffed office or base? (tick as many as apply)
Question 10: Are staff or volunteers from your DPO currently attending face-to-face events, meetings and conferences on behalf of the DPO?
Question 11: Is your DPO currently hosting face-to-face events, meetings and conferences?
Question 12: Have any of your staff or volunteers caught Covid in 2022 so far?
Question 13: Have any of your staff or volunteers died of Covid or Covid-related illness or disease during the pandemic?
Question 14: Have any of your staff or volunteers developed long-term conditions or Long Covid after catching the virus?
Question 15: Overall, what impact has Covid-19 had on the HEALTH of your DPO workforce of staff and volunteers?
Question 16: Overall, what impact has Covid-19 had on the MORALE of your DPO workforce of staff and volunteers?
Question 17: To what extent do you agree with the Government’s current ‘Living with Covid’ policy?
Question 18: To what extent do you agree that Covid will eventually evolve into an everyday illness like the common cold or influenza?
Question 19: To what extent do you agree that people will gradually develop immunity to Covid through vaccination and catching the virus (sometimes called ‘herd immunity’)
