Campaign targets potential voters
People with disabilities and migrant workers are being asked to make sure they are on Northern Ireland's electoral register.
1 Oct 2007
News
New equality body opens its doors
A new single equality body for England, Wales and Scotland comes into effect on 1 October, replacing three long-standing commissions. The Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will look after age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation. The new organisation will also have a duty to promote and uphold the Human Rights Act.Its chair is Trevor Phillips from the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE).
1 Oct 2007
Disabled offered new library link
A new service has begun to help people with mobility problems visit one Leicester library.
1 Oct 2007
Bath death prompts £15,000 fine
A care provider has been fined £15,000 for breaking health and safety laws following the death of a disabled woman who had been left alone in a bath. Lilia Korzun, 48, who needed 24-hour care, died at a sheltered bungalow in Wednesbury, West Midlands, in 2004.
1 Oct 2007
Scotland's invisible epilepsy epidemic
It was once known as the Sacred Disease. Its sufferers were revered and stigmatised in equal measure for their supposedly divinely ordained condition. Julius Caesar, Peter the Great, and Byron are just a few of the best known historical figures to have had epilepsy.
1 Oct 2007
Carers to earn more without losing out
Carers will be able to earn more money without losing their benefits, Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain has announced.
27 Sep 2007