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Access to education
28 September 2017
Anna Bird is right to highlight the glaring employment gap between disabled people and the working age population as a whole. While the number of disabled people in employment has increased in recent years, as a country, we continue to...
Continue ReadingThe year ahead
26 September 2017
It's been a funny old year. For me personally, it's been bittersweet. Bitter because my father died in the middle of it - three days after the election - sweet because he lived to see me become the first ever...
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Achieving everyday equality for disabled people
26 September 2017
Life today is still much harder for the 13 million disabled people in this country than it needs to be. In 2017 disabled people still face barriers to employment and are not getting the care and support they need to...
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A fair access to justice
25 September 2017
I was recently told of the case of a two-year-old girl who suffered major brain damage because an out-of-hours GP failed to diagnose her meningitis. Her family was granted legal aid to take the doctor to court for medical negligence...
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The value of staying in the EU
25 September 2017
It seems evident that the United Kingdom should stay as close as possible to the European Union. Indeed, my preferred option (like that of the now 52 per cent who said in a recent poll they preferred now to stay...
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The transformative effect
24 September 2017
Not everyone wants to devolve decision making, maybe they see it as too difficult, or they have a very clear view of what a community should accept and nothing is going to change their mind. Maybe sometimes people struggle with the...
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