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.
Tag Archives: Learning difficulties
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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In store beach party to raise funds for ENABLE Scotland
Life’s a beach for Thurso Co-op staff
LOCAL supermarket staff will be donning their sun hats and shades later today to raise money for a learning disability charity.
Workers at the Co-operative shop in Meadow Lane, Thurso, are having an in-store summer beach party to raise funds for ENABLE Scotland – the country’s leading charity for children and adults who have learning disabilities. It is the Co-operative’s chosen charity of the year for 2011.
A amazing young woman with Down’s Syndrome has been singled out as a role model
Inspirational” Brogan highlighted as a role model in government report
Saturday, August 13, 2011
12:00 PM
A young woman with Down’s Syndrome who works in Norwich has been singled out as a role model in a report to the government intended to encourage people with disabilities into employment.
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Every Sunday Brogan Johnston, 22, from Fakenham is buzzing with excitement in anticipation of starting a new working week.
She works 30 hours a week as a post room porter and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and her positive attitude led to her being invited to Whitehall, London to record a short video which is now on the website YouTube.
