Guidance launched to prevent deaths of people with learning disabilities in healthcare settings
Nurses and healthcare workers have been issued with new guidance on caring for people with learning disabilities.
18 Jul 2016
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PIP AWARD RATES
The percentage of DLA to PIP claimants who get any award at all of PIP has fallen from a high of 80% in March 2014 to 70% in April 2016. That's almost one in three people who are losing out entirely, with no explanation as to why decisions are becoming harsher.
17 Jul 2016
Stephen Crabb reaffirms no PIP cuts
Stephen Crabb Secretary of State at DWP addresses All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability AGM. Over seventy observers, MPs and peers heard the Secretary of State at DWP Stephen Crabb repeat his commitment that the planned saving in personal independence payment would not be sought from cuts in welfare payments elsewhere affecting more disabled people.
17 Jul 2016
UN Slams Tories over Human Right Abuses
While the country is entrenched in the mire of the EU referendum fallout, the Tories have just been slammed by the United Nations (UN) - for human rights abuses.
16 Jul 2016
We need to know and we need to know now
Who was it that decided that hatred and bitterness and back-stabbing and nastiness were ever OK?
16 Jul 2016
Cheap but not always cheerful.
So. Today is voting day for the Referendum which means I have had to get up. I don't do getting up every day but today is too important not to so I am now sitting in my wheelchair and I'm not entirely happy about it.
4 Jul 2016