Category Archives: disability

Where can I get a free PC?

May 5, 2015   Carers, disability, Featured Article, internet

FANCY a free computer?

It might seem unbelievable, but you could be eligible for one, or at least for a big discount, from one of the UK’s Government or charity schemes.

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Disabled Leeds women reveal heartbreaking stories of sexual and physical abuse

April 16, 2015   Carers, disability, Featured Article

17:44Wednesday 15 April 2015

The problems facing disabled women in accessing services for abuse victims.

“I was raped when I was just coming up to my 18th birthday and he physically and mentally abused me … it happened not just to me, it happened to three other people.”

Those are the disturbing words of a 48-year-old Leeds woman called Lucy, recounting her time at a college for people with learning difficulties in the 1980s.

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Learning-disabled people are dying because they receive less good care

March 24, 2015   autism, Carers, disability, Featured Article, learning difficulties

Following the Winterbourne View abuse scandal, there’s been a lot of well-intentioned talk but little actual progress in improving the care of vulnerable people

Connor Sparrowhawk, who drowned in the bath in a specialist NHS inpatient unit in Oxford in 2013

By the time Robin Kitt Callender died, she had endured eight weeks of intermittent vomiting and diarrhoea, and her weight had fallen to five stone. In the four months before she collapsed at her Essex care home, the 53-year-old had visited her GP six times and A&E twice, but her inflammatory bowel disease remained undiagnosed.

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