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'Pensioners in care homes can't survive on £21 a week' says charity

By Vern Pitt, journalist, on October 20, 2009 11:20 AM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks

National care charity Counsel and Care have responded to the government's refusal to raise the Personal Expenses Allowance to £40, as recommended by the Department of Work and Pensions Select Committee.

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Equalities and Human Rights Commission: what is happening?

By Keith Sellick on July 21, 2009 12:26 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

by Keith Sellick

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission was launched in October 2007 as a one-size fits all equality body replacing several other commissions. At the time, there was some disquiet over whether one body could focus on older people, disabled people, ethnicity and race, and gender issues.
Three years later, it seems that the doubters are right.

Disability campaigners, Baroness Jane Campbell and Sir Bert Massie resigned as commissioners last week along with three others.

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Why does learning disabled = lonely?

By Daniel Lombard, workforce editor, on April 21, 2009 9:45 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

  by Daniel Lombard

"Many people still do not recognise and accept that people with learning disabilities, like anyone else, want and need personal and sexual relationships... Yet the evidence is that people with learning disabilities have very few relationships and limited opportunities to form or sustain them. People are often lonely."

Valuing People Now, HM Government, January 2009

 

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Human rights in the dock

By Gary Brigden, Webmaster on December 3, 2008 11:38 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

by Emma Maier


Concerns have again surfaced that the appeals process for Independent Safeguarding Authority decisions to bar people from working with children and vulnerable adults may be incompatible with the right to a fair trial under the Human Rights Act.

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