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Entertainment and Education intertwined. Could Soap Operas do more?

I have been watching 'This Morning' on TV and they were doing a phone-in about a storyline that's coming up on Corrie and it got me thinking. Given that many people could get help with their issues by seeing characters in their favourite soap operas going through the same thing, could this be exploited in some way? I know that, quite often, we get the helpful message at the end of a programme giving a phone number that people can ring if they have been affected by any of the issues they have just seem, but could more be done?

14 Mar 2016

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Ministers withdraw support from their own disability network

Ministers have withdrawn much of their support for a disability network they set up just three years ago, casting fresh doubts on the government's disability strategy and the future of the Office for Disability Issues (ODI).

13 Mar 2016

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We need a Lib Dem role model for disabled people

A couple of days ago, I found myself in quite an unusual situation. As a candidate for May's local elections, I was campaigning in my ward's town centre when someone flung their arms around me and gave me a great hug.

8 Mar 2016

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Boxes and Pigeonholes. We just don’t fit.

This morning has been interesting. I have been asked if I could write something about how the British Welfare Benefits system does not take into account the needs and difficulties experienced by disabled people with a medical condition where the effects of the condition fluctuate, so, here goes!

8 Mar 2016

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Mum Of Autistic Boys Creates Dolls That Seek To Encourage Acceptance Of Disabilities

One mum's line of dolls with disabilities makes clear just how few toys like this there are. [Photo: Caters]

7 Mar 2016

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Stop it now, before it’s too late

One of the things I have seen online today that has made me think is an article about one of the 7/7 survivors who is having to go through the humiliating experience of applying for Employment Support Allowance. This man is a double amputee who has lost an eye and his spleen and is now a wheelchair user. The article is concerned with how awful it is that someone, who was so severely injured due to a terrorist act, and whose injuries are a matter of record, has to prove he is disabled in order to receive support.

7 Mar 2016

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Entertainment and Education intertwined. Could Soap Operas do more?

Ministers withdraw support from their own disability network

We need a Lib Dem role model for disabled people

Boxes and Pigeonholes. We just don’t fit.

Mum Of Autistic Boys Creates Dolls That Seek To Encourage Acceptance Of Disabilities

Stop it now, before it’s too late

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