‘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.”
Family home carers need the internet
Motivation remains the toughest nut to crack when encouraging people to go online
ONS stats from the Labour Force Survey are out –
8.7m adults (17.4%) have never used the internet, compared to 41m (82.3%) who have.
77% of households have Internet access = up 4% year on year
45% of individuals connected to the web via a mobile phone in the previous 12 months, and 6m of them did so for the first time
Wireless hotspot users almost doubled in the last 12 months to 4.9m
Only 44% of Internet users interact with public authorities online
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.
