Legal threat over disability plan
A Cornish council could be taken to court because it has not yet complied with some of the new disability discrimination laws.
20 May 2007
A Cornish council could be taken to court because it has not yet complied with some of the new disability discrimination laws.
Parents whose children have a learning disability will grasp at anything they feel will help their child, and many have spent hundreds of pounds kitting their children out with coloured lens spectacles. They look a bit odd, but children and teachers report dramatic changes in learning ability and concentration.
Trade unions say they are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people. Remploy, which has 5,000 disabled staff at 83 plants in the UK, says it has to cut costs.
Government spending cuts to mental health services, made despite mental illness affecting one in six adults in the UK, are being highlighted by the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons today. Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Norman Lamb MP, who will be leading today's opposition day debate, said:
Norman Lamb leads a Liberal Democrat opposition day debate highlighting the need to place more focus on mental health services and calling on the government to ensure mental health services are better funded and more widely available.
The poorest households should pay less for their gas and electricity, according to Energywatch. Three million households in Britain struggle to pay, says the energy watchdog, and it wants the government to force firms to cut their bills.