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New group for visually impaired in Plymouth
Low vision group to deal specifically with issues relating to people with sight loss.
PLYMOUTH City Council has set up a separate low vision group to deal specifically with issues relating to people with sight loss.
The group has deliberately been kept separate to ensure that visual impairment issues do not get lost in wider disability-related issues.
Plymouth’s highlights:
As soon as a person is diagnosed staff at the Royal Eye Infirmary send over the paperwork to the council.
Government should care for carers
Sarah Lambert, Head of Policy at The National Autistic Society (NAS) and co-writer of the 50th birthday report: ‘The Way We Are: Autism in 2012’.
Published Wednesday, July 4, 2012 – 10:25
To mark our 50th birthday, The National Autistic Society commissioned the largest ever survey into autism, in order to show what life is like in the UK for people affected by the condition. Covering the wide range of autism experiences from diagnosis and employment to school and independent living, the survey informed a major new report from the charity, ‘The Way We Are: Autism in 2012’.
A minister for older people would be a victory for all generations
Intergenerational squabbling over housing is missing the point, all generations should welcome the Commons’ decision
With the media drawing battle lines between young and old, last week’s vote in the Commons urging the government to consider appointing a minister for older people could be seen as a victory for the greys.
The debate, prompted by a 137,000-strong petition presented to Number 10 in November, follows increasingly frenzied reporting about which generation is faring the worst in the economic crisis. But, as attendees at a Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) consultation on housing policies for all generations heard, such intergenerational squabbling is missing the point.
The consultation, a result of a partnership between St George’s House and the JRF, brought together senior figures to consider what a fair housing deal across the generations would look like.
