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Saturday, 28 January 2012
Protesters show anger over Welfare Reform Bill
People in wheelchairs chained themselves together in anger over welfare proposals, blocking traffic in one of London's busiest shopping areas.
Disability campaign groups and members of direct action organisation UK Uncut chanted, held banners and banged drums in the middle of Oxford Circus.
Campaigners say the changes in the Welfare Reform Bill would see half a million people lose ...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Pressure mounts over welfare reform plans
More pressure is being piled on the UK government to drop its controversial welfare reforms after a new report revealed how working families would be affected by the proposed changes.
The government this week has been desperately trying to salvage the Welfare Reform Bill after a number of humiliating defeats in the House of Lords, the latest of which was the rejection of the proposal ...
Monday, 23 January 2012
Man angered by Tesco disservice
A disabled customer has spoken of his anger and upset at a supermarket’s failure to explain a “discriminatory” incident in which it refused to serve him alcohol.
When Jamie Beddard, who has cerebral palsy, tried to buy some beer at the Newington Green branch of Tesco at 10:30 one December morning at the end of last year, the deputy manager refused to serve him. ...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Do disability rights cost too much?
The genesis of today's battle over Disability Living Allowance can be traced back to California in 1962.
Ed Roberts had applied to the state's university at Berkeley where one of the deans famously said: 'we've tried cripples before and it doesn't work'.
But Ed won his place and found himself on the front line of the civil rights protest movement. Amid sit-ins and demos, he asserted ...
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Spared jail
Three pals walked free from court after admitting tying a man with learning difficulties to a lamppost and torturing him in a terrifying four-hour ordeal.
Maggie Bowden, Rebecca Willis and Anthony Connolly were given suspended prison sentences for the ‘appalling’ incident which they claimed was a prank.
Their victim, Sean Ruddeforth, 31, was covered with paint, food and ...
Monday, 16 January 2012
We are all Spartacus
It’s an unusual event for a report and the motivation for producing it to come directly from within the community for whom it purports to speak. But, as Ian Macrae reports, such was the case in early January.
The Prime Minister’s claim that “We’re all in this together” was given a new twist early in the new year when it was coupled with the Roman myth of ...
Friday, 13 January 2012
Child benefit plans could be modified, says Cameron
Plans to help high earners hit by the 'cliff-edge effect' of withdrawing child benefit are in their infancy and no specific proposal is being considered, government sources have said.
The government response came after David Cameron acknowledged the possible effect on families in an interview for parliament's House Magazine.
The prime minister suggested that the cuts, due in 2013 ...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Lords inflict triple welfare bill defeat on government
The government's plans to reform welfare were badly hit on Wednesday when it suffered three defeats in the House of Lords on proposed benefit cuts.
Plans to means-test employment and support allowance (ESA) payments for disabled people after only a year were rejected by peers.
The means test would have applied to cancer patients and stroke survivors, and was denounced by Lord Patel, ...
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Recession brings hard times for vulnerable people in Scotland
Scottish Independent Advocacy organisations report that the economic recession is having an increasingly negative impact on the most vulnerable members of our society.
‘More for Less? Independent Advocacy – More demand, less funding’ details the findings of research into the delivery of Independent Advocacy in the current economic downturn and reports on the experience ...
Monday, 9 January 2012
£700,000 for disability organisations
Charities across Scotland are set to benefit from almost £700,000 to expand and improve the information and advice they provide to thousands of disabled people and carers.
The money will help organisations which work with people who have physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health issues, dementia and sensory impairments, supporting them to access the care services ...
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