Archive: Disability

Comment: Osborne's cuts are disproportionately punishing the disabled

Megan Cleaver: 'Recent research has revealed that over £28 billion will be taken out of disabled people's pockets by 2018.'

Osborne's cuts are eroding the support for disabled people, which is completely out of kilter with public opinion.

Comment: Govt's welfare reform bill trick stinks of injustice

Comment: Remploy, disabled workers and political correctness

Comment: Paralympic support is a figleaf for cuts

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United Response: Disability charity launches its website in easy read

The national disability charity, United Response, is launching a new version of its website today. Created in full easy read, with video translation on each page, United Response has set out to deliver a website, which is accessible to as many people with learning disabilities as possible.

United Response: Disability charity launches new easy read guide to living independently and managing money

The national disability charity, United Response, is launching a new free guide today to help people with learning disabilities, who want to live more independently, make financial decisions about their future.

NUT: Disabled teachers provide role models and promote aspiration

After the debate on Motion 50, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers? union commented on the coalition's treatment of the disabled and more specifically the impact of their policies on disabled teachers.

United Response: New fund puts power in the hands of disabled people

Over the last few days, the media has been dominated by coverage of the long awaited draft social care bill. It is perhaps unsurprising therefore that an announcement by the Home Office yesterday of a new fund to support disabled people who wish to stand for elected office appears to have missed the news agenda.

Comment: Time to stamp out disability hate crime for good

Dan Scorer: 'Until prejudice such as this is eradicated, people with a learning disability will continue to be failed by the system and denied justice.'

A new report has shown disability hate crime goes largely unreported. While some progress is being made, there is still a lot to be done to eliminate this problem entirely.

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Councillor quits after 'disabled kids should be put down' remark

Brewer's remark was condemned as 'outrageous' by disabled charity Scope

Cornwall county councillor finally bows to public pressure after saying disabled children should be 'put down'.

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Comment: Stammering MPs are better than glib ones

Speech impediments should not be the butt of jokes

Ed Balls' stammer shouldn't be mocked. We have blind MPs and MPs in wheelchairs, but one would be hard put to find incidences when their disability become a subject of mirth for political opponents.

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Govt sneaks out disability redundancy news

The Remploy closures show the entire programme is being winded down by ministers.

The government sneaked out news of further redundancies at Remploy factories today, using a ministerial statement to announce 682 disabled workers' jobs were at risk.

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Third of incapacity benefit claimants judged fit to work

More people are being deemed fit to work

Over a third of all those assessed for incapacity benefits between December last year and February this year were fit for work, according to government figures.

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Lib Dem diary: Clegg finishes badly at Scalextric

Clegg doesn't come out too badly from the Top Gear game

His personal popularity may be taking a bit of a battering in the polls - but Nick Clegg pulled the crowds in at the Liberal Democrat exhibition centre today during his tour of the stands.

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Comment: Paralympic support is a figleaf for cuts

Debbie Jolly: 'The WAC is a system designed to remove over a million disabled people from welfare support that has caused misery, anxiety and the premature deaths and suicides of an estimated 32 people a week.'

While the government praises paralympians for their 'can do' attitude, it is busy withdrawing all the support that helped them become sporting heroes in the first place.

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