Over 30,000 people receiving 15-minute homecare visits in England Half of these people live in council areas that admit to using 15-minute visits for personal care Over one in five councils provide these rushed visits for personal care Leonard Cheshire Disability wants councils to put a stop to undignified and unsafe ‘flying’ care visits Thousands of disabled and older people ... Read More »
Responding to reports in the media that the government intends to allow local councils to raise council tax by 6% over two years, Leonard Cheshire Disability CEO Neil Heslop, said: “We are pleased that the government has acknowledged the severe strain that social care is under. Giving local councils more flexibility to raise revenue locally is a step in the ... Read More »
Leading companies are looking for talented disabled students, and recent graduates, to take on work placements in summer 2017. The Change100 internship scheme, run by the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability, seeks to create career opportunities for disabled young people through three-month work placements. Applications for Change100 open today and close on the 25 January, 2017. Students and recent graduates are ... Read More »
61 percent of disabled people would like to do more sport or exercise. 21 percent of UK adults say they’d be encouraged to exercise more if facilities were more accessible to them. Almost one in ten disabled people say they would be more likely to take part if they were “not disabled”, “not injured”, or “in better health”. Leonard Cheshire ... Read More »
Leonard Cheshire Disability announced that Neil Heslop, OBE, is joining the charity as chief executive on 1 October. Neil, currently Managing Director, RNIB Solutions, is also co-founder and trustee of Blind in Business, an organisation he set up over twenty years ago. Neil, who lost his sight aged 21, joined RNIB in May 2013. He is a graduate in Law ... Read More »
Leonard Cheshire Disability is to present to a United Nations audience the charity’s ideas on how more employment opportunities for disabled people can be created in the developing world. The international development community are convening in New York on Monday for the tenth anniversary of the UN Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Assistant Director Alessandra Furtado will ... Read More »
The Leonard Cheshire Disability Research Centre is supporting the work of the United Nation’s Washington Group on Disability Statistics in rolling out the first internationally-comparable disability data collection methods. Short and long-form disability data questionnaires developed by the Washington Group have already been adopted in over 100 countries. The surveys are deployed by the UN’s Department of Social and Economic ... Read More »
Disabled guests living at services run by the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability will be among 10,000 people attending The Patron’s Lunch, thanks to a generous gift from two of the charity’s partners. Guests from Cambridgeshire, Essex, Glasgow, Hertfordshire, Northern Ireland and Wales will enjoy a street party on the Mall to celebrate HM The Queen’s 90th birthday on Sunday 12 ... Read More »
Our London marathon runners are set to have raised a whopping £190,000 between them this year, making a huge difference to the support we can provide in 2016. A total of 80 runners pounded the streets of the capital on Sunday to support our vital work for disabled people in the UK and abroad, with friends, family and the Leonard ... Read More »
Majority of UK SMEs aren’t currently catering for disabled customers – a market worth £212 billion There are 11 million disabled people in UK – comprising 17% of population 77% of UK SME business owners would seek advice on how to make their business more accessible Barclays launches new portal to help businesses become accessibility confident From lifts and loos, ... Read More »
Just 29% of public oppose closer integration of competitions for disabled and non-disabled athletes Paralympian long-jumper Markus Rehm, an amputee, currently barred from competing at the Olympics Leonard Cheshire Disability’s pre-Paralympic Games survey of over 2,000 people has found there is an interesting level of public support for integrating sporting competitions for disabled athletes into the Olympic Games. 48 percent ... Read More »
Disabled people stand to benefit after a Milton Keynes mother of three pledged to push through the pain barrier to run the London Marathon for Leonard Cheshire Disability. Claire Marr, a primary school teacher taking on her second marathon, is looking to raise £1,500 with her running partner Gillian Bailey. “I can’t begin to imagine the struggles those with disabilities ... Read More »
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