Cash to help disabled volunteers
A Derbyshire charity has been given £166,000 to help young disabled people to become volunteers.
30 Nov 2007
A Derbyshire charity has been given £166,000 to help young disabled people to become volunteers.
A group of disabled workers have staged a sit-in at the head office of the government's biggest department.
Most assembly members have backed a call for £21m to be safeguarded to support disabled children in Wales.
Twenty-eight of Remploy's 83 factories employing disabled workers are to close, Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain has said. Ministers have said Remploy factories cost too much, but unions argue that the government is not doing enough to bring in business. The closures could mean up to 2,000 jobs will be lost. The government said 17 factories would close and 11 would be merged with other Remploy sites.
Nearly £70,000 of government funding to improve homes for people with learning disabilities at two group homes in Fenland has been agreed. Camb's Learning Disability Partnership (LDP) provides the accommodation, at Wisbech and Whittlesey, for eight learning disabled adults.
A hi-tech scheme which cuts the time taken to approve disabled parking bays has received national acclaim.