Monthly Archives: July 2011
REDBRIDGE: Disabled and pensioners to meet bus bosses over complaints
This needs to be looked at all over the country, not just in Redbridge!
12:41pm Wednesday 13th July 2011
BUS bosses and Transport for London (TfL) will be quizzed by disabled people and pensioners over bus accessibility.
Redbridge Transport Action Group (RTAG) will meet with managers from Arriva, Go Ahead and TfL later this month to discuss their grievances and see how things can be improved.
It claims that equal access is being impeded because drivers stop too far from the kerb for disabled people to get on, wheelchair ramps fail to extend properly and buses pull away before disabled and older people are seated, meaning they fall over.
85 year old left alone and bed-ridden for 3 days as carers fail to turn up
Red tape blunder is a feeble excuse, how many other times have vulnerable people been forgotten.
Abandoned: Tameside woman, 85, left alone and bed-ridden for three days as carers fail to turn up in red tape blunder
Exclusive by Jessica Beckett
July 13, 2011
Another care home abuse inquiry: Staff suspended
When will this abuse in care homes ever end
12 July 2011 Last updated at 20:12
The BBC has learnt that four members of staff have been suspended at Rose VillaAllegations of abuse are being investigated at a home for people with learning disabilities in Bristol.
The BBC has learnt that four members of staff have been suspended at Rose Villa, a nine-bed rehabilitation centre in the Brislington area.
