THOUSANDS of people have signed a petition calling for Collin Brewer to resign his newly won place on Cornwall Council. The controversial politician resigned in February after it was revealed he said disabled children should be put down because they cost the authority too much. Read More »
Sketches and drawings of David Bowie and Madonna are among 390 works by renowned Scottish artist Peter Howson which are being sold by his ex-wife. Terry Howson is auctioning the works to raise money for the couple’s daughter Lucie, who has Asperger’s syndrome. Read More »
A care home worker will run her first London marathon this year to raise funds for a disabled children and adults’ charity. Lucy Clark-Pickering is the Activities Co-ordinator at Breage House, a specialist care home operated by Swallowcourt, and will be running the marathon on 21 April 2013 in aid of Phab. Read More »
Parents can find out useful information in a free booklet Family cars: a guide for families of disabled children produced by the consumer research charity Rica. In this new A4 guide, Read More »
Channel 4 as ever, are doing a fantastic job of providing a frank and uncomprimising look at disabled life in Britain today. Currently being broadcast on Channel 4 is Born To Be Different, Read More »
Parents with severely disabled children who are unable to share a room with their siblings are to be exempt from the Government’s under-occupation penalty, or so-called bedroom tax. Ministers will publish guidance to local authorities today which will allow them to exclude families with disabled children from the reduction in benefits for having a spare room, which is due to ... Read More »
Cast your mind back to May 2012; before London had hosted the greatest Olympic Games ever and before the Paralympics had put disability on the map. That May in the Queen’s Speech, the government revealed plans for a new piece of legislation – the children and families bill. Read More »
A Cornwall councillor at the centre of a row over his remark about disabled children has resigned. Collin Brewer had told a charity worker at an event that disabled children should be “put down” because they cost the authority too much money. He made the comments to a Disability Cornwall member at a stall at County Hall in Truro in ... Read More »
A councillor has apologised for telling a disability charity “Disabled children cost the council too much money and should be put down”. Collin Brewer, an independent member of Cornwall Council, made the comments to a Disability Cornwall member at a stall at County Hall in Truro in 2011. Read More »
THIS is the moment a Scrooge traffic warden slapped £140 of parking tickets on ambulances carrying disabled children – after they had sung in a CHARITY carol concert. The youngsters – many in wheelchairs – were being lifted into two specially-adapted minibuses when the jobsworth enforcement officer wrote out two £70 penalty notices before swaggering away. Disgusted Christmas shoppers captured ... Read More »
SHUTTING away children with disabilities in cupboards and tying them to chairs to control them is shameful. Doing so at school or on a school bus is unforgivable. Yet this is what has happened to these children, according to a father who is considering legal action, Read More »
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