Daily Archives: 15/10/2011

Disabled peer warns colleagues of health risk of debate move

15/10/2011 – 9:00 am

A disabled peer has warned that the decision to move discussion of the government’s controversial welfare reform bill to a less accessible committee room could put her safety at risk.
Baroness [Jane] Campbell told fellow peers that holding the committee stage of the bill in “committee room 4a” – rather than the main chamber of the [...]

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Magazine agrees to review links with ‘fitness for work’ company

15/10/2011 – 9:00 am

A campaign against the company that conducts “fitness for work” tests on disabled people achieved a major success this week after the British Medical Journal (BMJ) agreed to review its relationship with the firm.
The BMJ – owned by the British Medical Association – said it was acting after scores of disabled people’s organisations and disabled [...]

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