A ground-breaking national survey has revealed a significant talent pool of high-flying disabled managers, despite the “massive disadvantage” disabled people face in developing such careers. The survey, by the disability campaigning network RADAR, uncovered many high-achieving disabled managers, with 110 earning at least £80,000 a year and another 186 earning from £40,000 to £79,999. These [...]
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Sep 2009
New government guidance will aim to reduce the high proportion of children with special educational needs (SEN) who are excluded from school. The children, schools and families secretary Ed Balls said the statutory guidance would make “tackling exclusions of SEN pupils a priority”. The guidance for Behaviour and Attendance Partnerships – formed when secondary schools [...]
The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London provide a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to improve access, inclusion and attitudes to disability, a conference has heard. David Morris, who coordinates inclusion and access for LOCOG, the organising committee of the Games, told the Disability Capital event that 2012 was a chance to leave “a [...]
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Sep 2009
Older people’s charities have given a cautious welcome to the prime minister’s pledge to provide free personal care for some older disabled people who live in their own homes. Gordon Brown made the promise during his speech to the party’s annual conference in Brighton. He said free personal care would be given to older people [...]
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Sep 2009
The authorities’ failure to protect the family of Fiona Pilkington from a ten-year hate crime campaign was “a staggering betrayal of trust”, according to disabled campaigners. An inquest jury found that Pilkington committed suicide and unlawfully killed her 18-year-old daughter, Francecca, by setting fire to their car in a layby in October 2007. The jury [...]
