Disabled peers have raised serious concerns about the government’s personal care at home bill, during a Lords debate. Two of them – Baroness [Rosalie] Wilkins and Lord [Colin] Low – voted for a motion to delay the next stage of the bill, which will introduce free personal care at home for disabled people with the [...]
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Mar 2010
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Mar 2010
The big four supermarket chains have all promised to do more to ensure disabled shoppers do not face discrimination over strict parking time limits. Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons all pledged to act after a survey for BBC Breakfast suggested that about two-thirds of the large stores that imposed strict time limits could be breaching [...]
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Mar 2010
The Conservative Party’s new draft policies on special schools and inclusion would “set the clock back by more than 30 years”, say appalled campaigners. They spoke out after the Conservatives published their draft education policy, three months before the likely date of the general election. The draft manifesto states: “Because the most vulnerable children deserve [...]
The government has published a “legacy plan” aimed at bringing about “lasting changes” to the lives of disabled people through the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. London 2012: A Legacy for Disabled People aims to increase disabled people’s participation in sport and physical activity, improve access to jobs, transport and other services, and change [...]
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Mar 2010
A groundbreaking report has concluded that disabled people working in both the private and public sectors can and do reach the highest levels of seniority. The disability charity RADAR heard from more than 900 disabled people in a survey of high-achievers, of whom more than 100 earned at least £80,000 a year. More than half [...]
