International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a UN-day. The theme for this year's is: "Break Barriers, Open Doors: for an inclusive society and development for all".
10 Dec 2013
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a UN-day. The theme for this year's is: "Break Barriers, Open Doors: for an inclusive society and development for all".
One year after her appointment as the first ever Liberal Democrat minister at the Department for International Development (DfID), Lynne Featherstone has already earned a reputation for picking up difficult subjects and setting ambitious goals. In her first year, she put the issue of female genital mutilation on the national and international agenda and famously declared that she wanted to see it gone within a generation and then started to take the practical steps to make that happen.
On World Mental Health Day (Thursday 10 October), Mark Hunter signed a pledge with Time to Change, the mental health anti-stigma programme. The pledge is a commitment by MPs in their roles as small employers to address mental health stigma and discrimination, and support mental health and wellbeing among their staff.
New survey looks at whether opinions have changed over the past 6 years
For far too long, the needs of hundreds of thousands of young carers who do incredible things to look after and support members of their family have been overlooked. They pay a big price with their school work, their social lives, and very often their own health. The role of carers at any age is still not valued or recognised anywhere near enough. This is despite the strides Lib Dems in government have made recognising carers needs and, for the first time, establishing the right in legislation to have these needs assessed.