Tag Archives: disability
Welfare Reform Bill
‘We won’t go back to the work house’
‘We won’t go back to the work house’ – a melodramatic slogan maybe, but one that captures the sense that many feel, that the Welfare Reform Bill, currently going through its first reading in the House of Lords before becoming law next month, represents a major step in the dismantling of state welfare, a return to a darker, pre-Beveridge age of a ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor.
Certainly it was a slogan that summed up the feelings of those gathered opposite the House of Lords on Wednesday, many of them living with disabilities, single parents and carers, a coalition of the dispossessed who feel victimised by the Bill.
East Coast Truckers convoy future secured
The charity has taken thousands of disadvantaged and disabled children to Great Yarmouth and Pleasurewood Hills in Lowestoft for a day out since 1985.
The future of an annual truckers charity convoy has been secured after organisers reached an agreement with Norfolk Police.
The East Coast Truckers convoy looked in doubt following changes in legislation.
The charity has taken thousands of disadvantaged and disabled children to Great Yarmouth and Pleasurewood Hills in Lowestoft for a day out since 1985.
Family unpaid Carers need help!
Carers need a break, too
As a parent of three disabled children, I know even going to work can be respite. We want the support to lead ordinary lives
Lady Pitkeathley once voiced the carers’ paradox – that they feel obliged to care but not to be cared for. Everyone needs a break, don’t they: but who takes over care for the carer when the carer’s not there?
