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Worries over East Lancashire Remploy sites
This will have concerns across the UK for other Remploy factories, what about the reconditioned computers they restore? More disabled people to lose their jobs! A disgrace!
By Sam Chadderton » Reporter
ALMOST 50 disabled workers could lose their jobs at a manufacturing firm, according to a union.
An independent report on the future of Remploy, which provides jobs for people with disabilities, has made a number of recommendations to help find disabled people work.
But the GMB union says that if implemented, it will mean there are no prospects of the 54 factories around the country surviving without public support.
650,000 people face risk of losing benefits because of new disability test, claim charities
650,000 people face risk of losing benefits because of new disability test, claim charities
Last updated at 12:43 PM on 9th July 2011
Charities fear that more than 650,000 people face losing their benefits because of a new disability test.
The government’s decision to introduce the medical assessments is designed to save more than £600 million a year.
But voluntary groups, including Mind, Disability Alliance, and Scope claim the tests – scheduled to be introduced from April 2013 – will hit hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people.
Judge ‘troubled’ by care ruling
Judge ‘troubled’ by care ruling
PA
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Supreme Court justice Lady Hale – a member of the five-strong judges’ panel which made the ruling – told of her fears that older people “might be left lying in faeces” because local authorities would be entitled to withdraw help.
Campaigning charity Age UK described the ruling as “shameful” and suggested that it could lead to the infirm being forced to “sleep in their own urine”.
