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Council to Consider Disability Training for Taxi Drivers

04/01/2013 – 11:10 am

Councillors in Redditch are considering a proposal to make disability training obligatory for all taxi drivers in the constituency. The scheme has recently been introduced in different areas across the UK and has been praised by anti-discrimination groups.
Training sessions, which are to be run by the council, are centred around the type of support that [...]

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Government makes ‘significant changes’ to PIP assessment criteria

21/12/2012 – 10:00 am

The government has made “significant changes” to the criteria it will use to assess disabled people’s eligibility for the new personal independence payment (PIP), but early analysis of the alterations suggests key concerns remain.
The Department for Work and Pensions today published its final plans for how it will assess claimants of PIP, the replacement for [...]

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