Daily Archives: 20/06/2010

Beds call for tough new licensing laws

20/06/2010 – 10:36 am

Disabled campaigners have asked their local MPs to back calls for tough new laws that would prevent councils granting alcohol or entertainment licences to inaccessible venues.
The Central Beds Access Group (CBAG) wrote to its three local Bedfordshire Tory MPs – Nadine Dorries, Alistair Burt and Andrew Selous – after hearing of a new access law [...]

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Government ‘steps back’ from rapid reassessment programme

20/06/2010 – 10:33 am

The new coalition government has released the first details about its timetable for “reassessing” hundreds of thousands of disabled people who claim “old-style” incapacity benefit (IB).
There were fears that the government would start to reassess large numbers of people on IB this October, despite repeated concerns about the inflexibility and unfairness of the work capability [...]

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