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Channel 4 wins chance to repeat London 2012 success at Rio and Sochi

Britain’s Paralympians have welcomed the news that Channel 4 has secured the UK television broadcast rights to both the Rio 2016 Paralympics and the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
Channel 4 will broadcast 500 hours of coverage from Rio, and more than 45 hours from next year’s winter games in Sochi, Russia.
Three years ago, the [...]

Remploy job figures underline Work Programme’s failure

The government is facing fresh criticism over the failure of its Work Programme to find jobs for unemployed disabled people.
In the same week that a BBC documentary suggested the coalition’s programme was failing, new government figures appeared to show the effectiveness of investing heavily in personalised employment support for disabled people.
Department for Work and Pensions [...]