John Pring's Disability News Round Up - 30/11/2012

12/04/2012 07:14:00 pm BenefitScroungingScum 1 Comments



  • Newspapers should be forced to apologise, print corrections, or even face heavy fines if they print misleading or offensive articles about disabled people and other minority groups, according to Lord Justice Leveson’s report into press standards.
  • Major questions have been raised over the government’s plans to support disabled people into work, after two long-awaited reports showed only about 1,000 claimants of disability benefits found work through the scheme in its first year.
  • A coroner has been unable to say for certain how a member of Nepal’s Paralympic delegation came to be found hanging from a tree in the middle of the London 2012 athletes’ village.
  • The government is set to appoint a former Conservative party boss and MP to chair the social care and health watchdog.
  • A new mobile phone app could be set to revolutionise the provision of assistance for disabled people across the transport, travel, leisure and retail industries.
  • A disabled air passenger has won permission to take an airline to the supreme court, to fight a legal ruling that leaves disabled travellers with no protection from in-flight discrimination.
  • Three members of ParalympicsGB’s high-performing London 2012 team have been nominated for the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) award.

News provided by John Pring at www.disabilitynewsservice.com

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope all the disabled people who are keen to work with the fascist government of the UK are happy that Remploy is being closed down completely at a cost of hundreds of disabled people being made unemployed.

Liz Sayce has a lot to answer for in her cavalier approach which presumably depends on her remaining an 'expert' in government eyes. What a sham person she is.