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			by  Mark Glasgow
                10 May 2012                    No Comments »     Filed under: disability news
Matthew Wright investigated over disability slurs in TV poll
 Channel 5 poll asked viewers whether ‘mong’, ‘spaz’ or ‘retard’ was the most offensive term relating to learning difficulties Matthew Wright’s Channel 5 daytime show is being investigated by Ofcom over a survey that used the words “mong”, “spaz” and “retard”. The Wright Stuff, which holds the dubious honour of airing the item which attracted the most complaints to Ofcom in 2011 , is being investigated by the media regulator to see if the poll was a breach of broadcasting rules relating to harm and offence. 
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			by  Mark Glasgow
                2 Apr 2012                    No Comments »     Filed under: disability news
The Undateables? Disability rights, but Channel 4 wrongs
 C4′s series following disabled people in their quest for love achieves honest portrayals, but hits new lows in marketing As marketing moves go, Channel 4 has hit a near impressive level of crass in its promotion of The Undateables, a series following people with disabilities in their quest for love. This is a title that looks bad on paper but even worse when put on a billboard , where towering images of people with a facial disfigurement or a wheelchair have the title Undateable emblazoned next to them. You do wonder why Channel 4 didn’t go the whole hog and just use the title “You’re weird and no one wants to have sex with you”.. 
 Tags: a-good-first, bbc, channel 4, feeds, guardian.co.uk, media, participants, quest, title

			by  Mark Glasgow
                16 Mar 2012                    No Comments »     Filed under: disability news, travel
Jim Mansell
 He helped learning-disabled people to live in the community Amid rising concern over cuts to UK health and social care services, it is often forgotten that the lives of most people with learning disabilities have improved immeasurably over the past 30 years. 
 Tags: a-talented-team, bbc, cardiff, city, department, feeds, guardian, health, healthcare, houses, learning disability, mansell, obituaries, society

			by  Mark Glasgow
                1 Mar 2012                    No Comments »     Filed under: disability news, sport
PC David Rathband told police he was OK days before being found dead
 Police officer shot and blinded by fugitive gunman Raoul Moat in July 2010 is believed to have killed himself The police officer shot and blinded by the fugitive gunman Raoul Moat had assured police he was “OK” days before being found dead at his home in a suspected suicide. Concerns about the wellbeing of PC David Rathband were raised by Twitter users who contacted police following comments he apparently made on the social networking site. He was reported to have tweeted “RIP PC Rathband” and that he had “lost my sight, my job, my wife and my marriage” and would “say goodbye to my children”. 
 Tags: australia, bbc, british, disability, family, home, life, marriage, radio, society, sport, trip, uk news

			by  Mark Glasgow
                1 Mar 2012                    No Comments »     Filed under: disability news
David Rathband told BBC: ‘I’m struggling to deal with being blind’
 Transcript of the interview PC David Rathband gave to BBC Radio 4′s In Touch programme for people who are blind or partially sighted, on 20 September 2011 Presenter Peter White Now last Christmas we talked at length to David Rathband, the policeman who was attacked and blinded by a gunman for whom the police were searching. Many of you expressed your admiration for the frankness with which David Rathband discussed his attempts to adjust to what had happened, and we said then that we’d return when he had had longer to deal with the situation. Sadly, things have not gone as well as David, and we, had hoped and with his agreement I returned to Northumbria yesterday after graphic headlines in some tabloids about a disturbance at the Rathband home. 
 Tags: a-similar-view-, bbc, david, life, radio, rathband, uk news, voice, white

			by  Mark Glasgow
                10 Feb 2012                    No Comments »     Filed under: disability news
Winterbourne View staff admit abuse of patients with learning difficulties
 Three workers admit 18 charges relating to offences against patients at care home after Panorama TV investigation Three members of staff have admitted mistreating patients at a private hospital for people with learning difficulties. Wayne Rogers, 31, Allison Dove, 24 and Holly Draper, 22, pleaded guilty to a total of 18 charges relating to the ill-treatment of patients at Winterbourne View hospital near Bristol
 Tags: bbc, graham-doyle, holly-draper, home, learning disability, social care, steven-morris, uk news

			by  Mark Glasgow
                6 Feb 2012                    2 Comments »     Filed under: disability news, Maria Miller
Minister for disabled people: there is no shortage of jobs
 Maria Miller blames unemployment on people’s unwillingness to apply for work A government minister has insisted there is “no shortage of jobs”, blaming unemployment on people’s unwillingness to apply for the work available. Maria Miller, the minister for disabled people in the Department for Work and Pensions, said on Sunday night she believed the unemployment problem was down to a lack of “appetite” for the jobs on offer
 Tags: bbc, department, feeds, figures, government, jobs, politics, research, successor, the guardian, unemployment, work

			by  Mark Glasgow
                23 Jan 2012                    No Comments »     Filed under: disability news
Welfare reform: household benefit cap Q&A
 Ministers say a £26,000 cap on the amount of benefits families can receive will cut the deficit and incentivise people to find work What is the household benefit cap? The government is proposing to introduce a £26,000 cap on the total amount of benefits that working-age people in the UK can receive (including job seeker’s allowance, housing benefit, child benefit and carer’s allowance), limiting it to £500 a week for families, or £350 for childless single adult households
 Tags: bbc, benefits, butler, children, from-the-cap, government, media, news, patrick-butler, welfare, will, will-it-affect

			by  Mark Glasgow
                17 Jan 2012                    No Comments »     Filed under: disability news, features
How the Spartacus welfare cuts campaign went viral
 Disabled activists use #spartacusreport Twitter storm to help inflict hat-trick of welfare reform defeats on the government in the Lords Something extraordinary happened last week in the volatile micro-blogging world of Twitter: a medium normally obsessed by celebrities, football and sex turned its collective attention instead to disability. A handmade campaign against welfare
 Tags: bbc, british, butler, government, health, house of lords, media, time, topics, twitter

			by  Mark Glasgow
                12 Jan 2012                    No Comments »     Filed under: disability news, finance, sport
Welfare cuts: Cameron’s problem is that people are nicer than he thinks | Polly Toynbee
 When these welfare changes come into force, their savage effect will be seen – and then the public mood will turn Ask who deserves support from the state
 Tags: bbc, citizens-advice, crossbenchers, david-cameron, feeds, finance, government, house, public finance, public services policy, social

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