Disability News:
Week ending 29th January 2010:
- Confusion after minister claims reserved posts are illegal
- Improvements to equality bill will safeguard ‘holy grail’
- Lib Dems lead the way on disabled MPs
- Smith pledges to make disabled people love the EHRC
- Report finds nearly a third of disabled people in poverty
- Minister’s verdict on EHRC: ‘Could do better’
- MP calls for evidence from disabled people for fuel poverty inquiry
- Campaigners fight again to hold the line on assisted suicide
- Peers approve bill to right wrongs of NHS’s ‘worst treatment disaster’
Week ending 22nd January 2010:
- Campaign accuses government on talking buses
- Movement must do more to encourage leaders of the future
- Justice system ‘must listen’ on safeguarding
- Figures show thousands missing out on employment support
- New boss of UKDPC looks forward to ‘fantastic opportunity’
- Equality bill amendments ‘will transform rights’
- Campaigns call on political parties to cut the jargon
Week ending 15th January 2010:
- Government expresses ‘regret and sympathy’ for thalidomide damage
- Writer’s university experiment will capture voices in poetry
- Peers call for legal duty on accessible information
- Rights campaigner to head EHRC’s disability committee
- McKinnon wins latest round in extradition court battle
- Personal care bill passes Commons hurdle
- Government faces criticism over mental health jury ban
- Disabled women take over makeover show
- Blue badge improvements for Wales
- Commons committee calls for more disabled MPs
- Channel 4 wins TV rights to 2012 Paralympics
- New scheme will help businesses with their growing pains
- Disabled duo set to fight again in court for direct payments
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