Monthly Archives: December 2011

DWP snubs Hardest Hit’s Christmas greeting

26/12/2011 – 9:00 am

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has turned away disabled activists who wanted to deliver a campaigning Christmas card on behalf of 23,000 people who signed a petition calling for urgent changes to the welfare reform bill.
Representatives from The Hardest Hit campaign had told the DWP they would be delivering the card – designed [...]

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Disabled student barred from using accessible parking space

24/12/2011 – 9:00 am

A university has prevented one of its disabled students from using an accessible parking space that was allowing him to carry out vital work experience, and has now painted over the bay’s markings.
Teesside University in Middlesborough tried to force music technology student David Birdsall to use a car-park more than 200 metres away instead, simply [...]

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