Archives for “Disability”
Thanks to Dan Lynch’s reminder, guidance and example, here is my own effort based on the 38Degrees letter template (the bits I added are in bold). I’d strongly encourage everyone to write to their MP, too, but read Dan’s article first! He has some good advice on how to do it as well as background [...]
Please write to the Lords about the Digital Economy Bill, today Jim Killock, 01 December 2009 Tomorrow, the Digital Economy Bill is debated by the Lords in its Second Reading. This is the first serious discussion of the contents of the Bill: so we need to make sure the Lords know that this Bill is [...]
The deadline for buying raffle tickets for the Small Charity Car Draw is tomorrow Friday 4 September. So, please, if you’d like to help Enfield Clubhouse support some of the most disadvantaged and socially excluded members of our community get their lives back buy a ticket or ten or as many as you want. It’s [...]
While they are at it, why don’t insurers discriminate against other disadvantaged groups, too? http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerindex?id=8401047 Posted via email from davidmarsden’s posterous
Jonathan Naess writes in The Guardian on Christine Laird‘s “victory” over her bullying bosses at Cheltenham Council. His excellent piece highlights all the main issues around discrimination faced by people with a history of mental health problems trying to get jobs. But one thing stands out to me: “She spent three months in a psychiatric [...]
“Kaiserslautern were obviously missing bruised testicle victim – Youri Djorkaeff – and you feel one good ball from him could make all the difference.” From Nutshell – October 99 to November 99I was actually at this game (the first leg at White Hart Lane) and remember feeling quite deflated to discover during the pre-match announcement [...]
SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Public manager | Leading questions: What are the main challenges to employing disabled people? Deep-rooted assumptions that disabled people are unemployable. Yet we have four government ministers who have a disability: David Blunkett, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw and John Prescott. As usually happens, I found this while looking for something else.Now, I think [...]