A Ricky Gervais sketch on employing disabled staff.It’s been a decade since The Office appeared on our TV screens. The story of daily grind in a Slough paper merchants was so realistic that when I stumbled across it on BBC2 one night it took me a minute to realise that it wasn’t a documentary.
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Welfare Reform Bill second reading Tuesday 4 October
Welfare Reform Bill second reading
13 September 2011
The Welfare Reform Bill had its second reading – a debate on the general principles of the Bill – in the House of Lords on Tuesday 13 September. More than 50 Members of the Lords took part, including Members with first-hand experience of the benefits system and disability. A petition on housing benefits was presented before the debate.
Ricky Gervais improving the lives of disabled people
Thank you Ricky Gervais, for improving the lives of disabled people
As the mother of two disabled daughters I thank Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant for the way they have highlighted discrimination and ignorance, writes Nicky Clark
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UK carers are facing terrible concerns over finances
UK carers ‘desperately worried about finances’
By Katherine Sellgren BBC News education reporter
Many carers had given up their jobs to help relatives and are now trapped in debt
The financial situation of more than a third of carers in the UK is so bad they do not want to wake up in the morning, research suggests.
A survey by Princess Royal Trust for Carers found 45% of those it questioned wanted to run away or felt depressed and that they could not cope.
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