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Honour for Jim Mansell, who brought learning disability out of the shadows
His decision to take a group of disabled children to the cinema changed lives for the better In 1970, there were 60,000 adults and children with learning disabilities living confined, institutional lives in long-stay hospitals. That autumn, a young student newly arrived at Cardiff University agreed to help take a group of children from the city’s Ely hospital to the cinema on a Saturday morning. From that point on, the hospitals stood no chance
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Honour for Jim Mansell, who brought learning disability out of the shadows
The coalition’s Dickensian take on disability allowance
For a government committed to getting people working, abolishing the disability living allowance
Clive Robbins obituary
Educationist and pioneer of music therapy for children with disabilities Together with the American composer and pianist Paul Nordoff, the British educationist Clive Robbins, who has died aged 84, founded the Nordoff Robbins approach to what they called “creative music therapy”. During their 16-year partnership, they demonstrated music’s capacity for reaching many developmentally and multiply disabled children. They did this by developing improvisation strategies to enable the children to become more communicative, socially aware, expressive and emotionally balanced.
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Do cuts kill?
The tragic deaths of a vulnerable couple living “hand-to-mouth” has highlighted the potentially catastrophic consequences of drastic cuts to benefits and services on those least able to cope The most shattering aspect of the video interview in which Mark Mullins describes his and his partner Helen’s struggle to survive acute poverty is the knowledge that a few months after it was recorded, both were dead, having killed themselves in an “apparent suicide pact”. The video, filmed at a Coventry soup kitchen run by a Salvation Army charity worker, is a humbling, devastating chronicle of a tragedy foretold: a couple whose urgent and complex social care needs were seemingly ignored by a glacial welfare system which both baffled and terrified them, and may ultimately have crushed them. Once a week, Mark told the interviewer, they would undertake a 12-mile round trip on foot to the food kitchen
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Do cuts kill?
Could the Paralympics leave a golden legacy for disabled workers?
Paralympic campaigners and organisers hope the Games will decisively change perceptions of what disabled people can achieve – on the field and in the workplace Bwerani Francis, 18, is midway through a garage mechanic’s course. Nadia Kabir is 19 and wants to be a receptionist
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A day in the life of a Blue Cross community vet nurse – in pictures
Community vet nurse Jo Edwards is employed by the Blue Cross animal charity to help ensure people and their pets can stay together
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A day in the life of a Blue Cross community vet nurse – in pictures
