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Disabled people must not be put at risk
Rights of disabled people may be at risk, says Human Rights Committee
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) today publishes its Report on the implementation of the right of disabled people to independent living in the context of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) which was ratified by the UK in 2009.
- Report: Implementation of the Right of Disabled People to Independent Living
- Report: Implementation of the Right of Disabled People to Independent Living (PDF)
- Inquiry: Implementation of the right of disabled people to independent living
- Joint Committee on Human Rights
The Report draws attention to a number of significant human rights issues, including:
- the need for freestanding legislation to protect the right to independent living in UK law
- the effect of current reforms to benefits and services on the ability of disabled people to enjoy independent living
- the role played by the UNCRPD in policy development and decision making at all levels of government
- the use of equality impact assessments
- the effects of devolution on implementation of the UNCRPD
- hate crime
Millions of healthy people could be wrongly labelled ‘mentally ill’
New mental health manual is “dangerous” say experts
By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent
LONDON |
(Reuters) – Millions of healthy people – including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes – may be wrongly labelled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said on Thursday.
In a damning analysis of an upcoming revision of the influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychologists, psychiatrists and other experts said new categories of mental illness identified in the book were at best “silly” and at worst “worrying and dangerous”.
Cash for Norfolk organisations
County Council makes grants available to help local people live independentl
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
Community groups, voluntary and charitable organisations and town and parish councils can apply for grants of up to £50,000 to help people in Norfolk live independently with a good quality of life.
