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Customers at a cafe run by people with learning difficulties express their sadness as it closes
It is due to close next Friday.
10:00am Monday 30th September 2013 in News By Graeme Hetherington
CUSTOMERS who regularly use a cafe staffed by people from an adult day centre have spoken of their disappointment as it is due to close next Friday.
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council decided to close Upsall Hall in July claiming that dwindling user numbers meant the centre was no longer viable.
However, many members of the public who use the centre feel let down by the decision.
Sheila Harvey, who used the centre for more than 30 years, campaigned tirelessly to save it from closure but the appeal fell on deaf ears.
Debt and mental health problems
Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry
Article Date: 30 Sep 2013 – 1:00 PDT
New research, led by the University of Southampton, has shown that people in debt are three times more likely to have a mental health problem than those not in debt.
There is currently around £156 billion in unsecured debt such as credit cards in the UK, of which the average family owes more than £11,000. Levels of debt have increased in recent years due to the economic recession and are predicted to increase further.
Disability tests opposed by dean of St Paul's Cathedral
A letter urging Prime Minister David Cameron to get rid of work assessments for the disabled has been signed by the dean of St Paul’s Cathedral.
The Very Rev Dr David Ison was among campaigners to claim the tests could “cut short” disabled people’s lives.
The letter also called on ministers to address the “shameful offences” of austerity measures.
The government said the assessments had been improved and could help disabled people get into employment.
‘Heaviest burden’
The letter, titled The Downing Street Demand, called for an end to work capability assessments (WCA) which “demean and distress” disabled people.
