Daily Archives: 29/03/2012

VisitEngland and DisabledGo Launch Online Disability Awareness Course

29/03/2012 – 4:46 pm

VisitEngland, the national tourist board, today launched a new online training course to help tourism businesses deliver excellent service to disabled customers.  Designed in partnership with award-winning disability organisation DisabledGo, the course is specifically tailored to help those working within the tourism industry. One thousand free spaces have been made available to tourism businesses in [...]

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Budget 2012: Shock at new £10 billion threat to benefits

29/03/2012 – 4:45 pm

Campaigners have warned that this week’s budget has produced a new and worrying attack on disabled people’s rights and support.
While most of the media’s attention was focused on measures such as reducing the top rate of income tax, freezing tax allowances for pensioners, and increasing the personal allowance, another announcement has alarmed disabled activists.
The chancellor, [...]

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