LibDem Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) Hugh O'Donnell has tabled a motion asking for an urgent review of employment and support allowance on the grounds that it is failing 'to work in the interests of the genuinely sick and disabled people of Central Scotland and the rest of the country.'
Annette Brooke MP has teamed up with GMTV news reporter and presenter John Stapleton to support this year's Carers Week (14 - 20 June) and celebrate the contribution made by people in Mid Dorset and North Poole, and throughout the UK, who provide unpaid care for someone who is ill, frail or disabled.
Liz Lynne MEP were among a group of Euro MPs who today backed calls for a major awareness and prevention campaign against the chronic liver disease Hepatitis. To mark World Hepatitis Day today, May 19th, Liz Lynne and MEPs from all parties have supported a call by 200 Patients' groups to back a World Health Organization (WHO) resolution on viral hepatitis. The resolution is being debated at the 63rd World Health Assembly in Geneva this week.
A 52-year-old disabled man was found with a broken leg and collapsed lung after being attacked with his own walking stick at his Rochdale home. The victim let two men whom he recognised into his home on Whitehall Street at 0300 BST on Saturday. The men became angry when the victim said he did not have cigarettes, drugs or money and one began assaulting him, police said.
The Public Services Ombudsman has upheld a disabled student's complaint about the stress he suffered over the management of his grant claims. The student, known as Mr K, said Gwynedd council made unnecessary grant reassessments and unreasonably withheld payments of his disability allowance. The report blamed a "catalogue of communication failures" between the council and the Student Loans Company.
A woman with learning disabilities has been stripped of her free travel pass after a west London council said that her IQ was too high for her to qualify. Yvonne Chappell, 39, has had a Freedom Pass for 10 years but Hounslow Council turned down her renewal application.
