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.
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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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Some of the patients were allegedly locked in cupboards, threatened and humiliated as they suffered physical and verbal abuse
Two members of staff at care home sacked after ‘locking mentally ill patients in cupboards’
- But carers will not be prosecuted after CPS claims ‘insufficient evidence’
Last updated at 8:06 PM on 15th September 2011
Carers who allegedly abused severely handicapped patients at an NHS centre will not be prosecuted, police said today.
Some of the patients were allegedly locked in cupboards, threatened and humiliated as they suffered physical and verbal abuse at the hands of carers.
Can mental health be improved by a sense of community?
Can a sense of community help with mental health?
By Liz Lockhart
Many recent research studies have touched on the subject of how mental health can be affected by environmental and community issues. Mental Healthy recently reported on one such study which suggested that the better off in society are more distrustful of their neighbours perhaps suggesting a feeling of isolation.
Other studies have looked at how modern technology effects mental health and communication between families and communities. The latest study to attempt to shed light on these issues is mentioned in Science Daily and was carried out by the University of Michigan.
