The government has appointed one of Britain’s most-successful Paralympians to be the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) new disability commissioner.
Chris Holmes is one of six new commissioners whose appointments were announced by the Conservative culture secretary Maria Miller this week.
Holmes was director of Paralympic integration for the London 2012 organising committee LOCOG, and served [...]
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Disabled people who want to volunteer at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be able to start applying later this month – nearly two months earlier than non-disabled people.
The 2012 organising committee (LOCOG) decided to give disabled people longer to apply after taking advice from disability organisations and volunteering teams from previous games.
Disabled [...]