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Disability hub opens to public

Families of children with disabilities can access a range of support and services at a new disability hub in Dunstable. The South Hub, located on the same site as St Augustine’s Academy Lower School, Oakwood Road, was opened last week. It took around nine months to develop and will provide services for children and young people, aged up to 18, ... Read More »

Celebrity Chef Visits Brainwave For Disability Awareness Week

Michelin Star Chef Aiden Byrne visited Birchwood based Brainwave to raise awareness as part of Disability Awareness Week. Aiden is an avid supporter of the charity, which helps children in the UK with disabilities to achieve greater independence, which can be anything from helping a child walk or learn to ride a bike, recognise colours or even write their name. ... Read More »

Mother Invents harness to help son walk for the first time

A mother’s invention that gave her wheelchair-bound son the chance to walk has been launched onto the worldwide market.  A Northern Ireland company has turned Debby Elnatan’s idea for a walking harness into a product that could transform the lives of countless disabled children. Read More »

Disability Challengers home bulldozed for redevelopment

CHARITY workers said goodbye to the past and looked forward to a bright future as a play centre in Guildford was demolished to make way for a new £1.2m building.  The centre, on the north side of Stoke Park, consists of temporary buildings and has hosted play schemes for Disability Challengers since the early 1980s. Each year the charity provides ... Read More »

Pimp my mobility scooter!

The 8mph vehicles kitted out to look like Land Rovers, Jeeps and are even appearing in new Robbie Williams video.  Read More »

Benefit cheat mother convicted for £350,000 fraud

A mother of eight has been told to expect jail after fraudulently pocketing more than £350,000 in benefits and tax credits by claiming five of her children were ‘disabled’.  Read More »

Cornish Councillor Colin Brewer Compares Disabled Children To Deformed Lambs

The Cornish councillor who was re-elected despite saying that disabled children “should be put down because they cost too much money” has again insisted that there may be a case for killing some disabled children with high support needs.  Read More »

Disability row – calls for Brewer to quit

More than 120 people confronted councillors in Cornwall yesterday over the re-election of Collin Brewer, the councillor who said disabled children “should be put down”.  Read More »