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Leveson’s third party reporting call ‘is no slippery slope’

18/12/2012 – 10:00 am

The government must back Lord Justice Leveson’s call for disabled people’s organisations to be allowed to lodge complaints with the press regulator about misleading and disablist newspaper coverage, say campaigners.
A letter published in The Guardian this week says disabled people, alongside other minority groups, have experienced “sustained levels of misleading, hostile and discriminatory reporting in [...]

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Anger as government adds disabled people to workfare scheme

13/12/2012 – 3:00 pm

Disabled people could now be forced to work indefinitely for their out-of-work benefits, as a result of new government rules introduced this week.
Those who fail to co-operate with the periods of “work experience” arranged for them could have their benefits cut.
The new rules – introduced on the UN’s international day of disabled people – will [...]

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