Category Archives: disability
‘Rain to Rainbow’ event encouraged local carers and their families to turn rain, their illness, into rainbows
Carers form a human rainbow to mark their family’s achievements
8:20am Thursday 1st September 2011
HUNDREDS of carers teamed up to create a human rainbow to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Silver Jubilee Bridge.
Wearing caps and t-shirts in the seven colours of the rainbow, they held hands, linking both sides of the famous landmark.
Organiser Dee Graal, development co-ordinator of Widnes and Runcorn Cancer Support Group, said: “It was really emotional.
“There was a great buzz and so much excitement. It was fantastic.”
Disabled activists planning a new wave of protests 30th September
New wave of protests to target ‘fitness to work’ company
Disabled activists are planning a new wave of protests aimed at the company paid to carry out controversial “fitness to work” tests on behalf of the government.Atos Healthcare has been targeted repeatedly by campaigners over the accuracy of its assessments, the way it treats disabled benefits claimants, and the generosity of its contract with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The protests will take place across the UK on 30 September – many of them led by disabled people – with the most prominent likely to be outside a recruitment fair being run by the BMJ [formerly the British Medical Journal] in Islington, north London.
Concessionary coach fares are coming to an end
31 August 2011 Last updated at 11:46
Bus cuts ‘threat to vulnerable’
Coach firms have had enough time to prepare for cuts to long-distance concessionary fares, Transport Minister Norman Baker has said.
Such fares for those over 60, and for those with disabilities, are to be scrapped in England on 1 November.
Coach operators said they could have offered the government the savings they wanted without penalising people who depended on the long-distance services.
But Mr Baker said companies had been given 12 months’ notice of the plans.
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