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.
Category Archives: learning difficulties
TWENTY years of offering support to people with learning disabilities
Learning disability charity rolls out celebrations near Leamington
Staff and users of learning disabilities charity Turning Point enjoying the 20th anniversary roller disco at the Sydni Centre.
TWENTY years of offering support to people with learning disabilities in Warwickshire was celebrated by charity Turning Point at a roller disco at the Sydni Centre in Sydenham.
Staff and service users from centres around the county, along with their families and friends, were joined by the mayor and mayoress of Leamington at the event.
LEARNING disability day services may be changing in Northumberland
Fears grow for future of learning disability care
LEARNING disability day services could be taken out of direct council control.
But a long-serving Northumberland carer has spoken of his concerns over the move.
Senior councillors have backed proposals for Northumberland County Council to team up with an external care provider to transform its five day centres and three horticultural skills units into a social enterprise.
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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