Eight out of ten of people support a law change to allow doctors to actively end the lives of terminally ill patients who want to die, a poll shows. However only 60% supported doctors prescribing, but not administering, drugs someone could use to end their own life. The British Social Attitudes report surveyed 3,000 people.
A campaign to tackle misunderstanding and prejudice about disabled people is urgently needed, Liberal Democrat Disability Spokesperson, Danny Alexander MP said today after the British Social Attitudes survey revealed negative views are still widely held.
Commenting on today's [Tuesday] Public Accounts Committee Report criticising the Government's use of hundreds of leaflets to communicate with the public, Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, David Laws MP said:
The government is wasting £800m a year through errors relating to benefit payments, MPs have warned. The public accounts committee report blamed government leaflets that were "too difficult to understand" for fuelling the number of errors and denying vulnerable people their benefit entitlements.
Greater Manchester Police are investigating claims that Aston Villa midfielder Lee Hendrie yelled abuse at a disabled fan during their 3-1 Premiership defeat at Manchester United.
A 10-minute screening test to identify pre-school children who might be dyslexic has been developed by language experts at University College London. The test will be used by children from the age of three and a half upwards, says Professor Heather van der Lely.
