I'm 21, have a learning disability and going out scares me
Hundreds of thousands of people with learning disabilities are being left isolated and lonely because of attitudes towards them, says charity Mencap.
7 Feb 2016
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There’s no such thing as a "Depression Day”
Jessica blogs about her experience with depression and how she feels about so-called 'Blue Monday'.
7 Feb 2016
Disabled People To ‘Lobby Parliament’ Over ‘Unacceptable’ Welfare Cuts
Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter photo credit: Knox O (Wasi Daniju) via photopin cc Nearly 150 disabled people are to "lobby Parliament" over welfare cuts proposed in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, which they claim could be detrimental to the health and well-being of people with disabilities.
6 Feb 2016
DON'T ABOLISH ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE
Why is this important? A single paragraph in the Local Government Finance Settlement published before Christmas sounded the death knell for attendance allowance (AA).
6 Feb 2016
If even the DWP isn’t Disability Confident, how will a million disabled people get jobs? – Bernadette Meaden
Nobody would expect a person who suffers blackouts to drive a bus or bin waggon once they had thought through the potentially devastating consequences. But political, cultural, psychological and financial coercion is being used to force people sick and disabled people to work - the government continues to cut welfare, which was calculated originally to cover only the costs of meeting basic needs. Cruel sanctions and strict, inflexible, often unreasonable behavioural conditions are being imposed on lifeline benefit receipt, adversely affecting some of our poorest and most vulnerable citizens; unemployed and disabled people are stigmatised in the media - all of this is done with an utterly callous disregard of a person's capacity to work, and importantly, the availabilty of appropriate and suitable employment opportunities, and this can have tragic consequences.
6 Feb 2016
Stop financially penalising disabled people
To: The Government
6 Feb 2016