Microsoft headset to help blind people navigate cities
A headset that talks visually impaired people around cities has been designed by Microsoft.
24 Nov 2014
A headset that talks visually impaired people around cities has been designed by Microsoft.
Liberal Democrat Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb has announced that £1.2m will be invested in projects to support adults with autism.
The government is writing to a string of high street chains urging them to improve after a BBC London investigation revealed a "depressing" failure to accommodate disabled people.
Last year I went into a local NHS hospital for half a day for a small operation to have two of my wisdom teeth taken out. The nurse who met me to do my pre-operation assessment the week before was very understanding of my anxieties and she explained everything clearly that would happen while I would be in the hospital. She saw from my notes that I have a learning disability.
There are "serious and deeply ingrained problems" with child and adolescent mental health services, officials warn.
MP Julian Huppert is pushing to make sure people too unwell to work don't suffer benefit cuts after Conservative Ministers refused to rule out cutting the Employment and Support Allowance.