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Disabled people ‘will lose more than £28 billion in benefits’

30/03/2013 – 3:09 pm

Disabled people are set to lose more than £28 billion in benefits by 2018 as a result of government cuts and reforms to the welfare system, according to new research.
The research – by the disability charity Scope and the thinktank Demos – calculates that 3.7 million disabled people will lose out as a result [...]

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Children at third special school were locked in ‘safe rooms’

08/03/2013 – 10:00 am

The government has again refused to investigate how many special schools are shutting disabled children in “safe rooms” as a punishment, after a head teacher was banned from teaching for leaving children locked in a “time out room”.
A Teaching Agency disciplinary hearing heard that Annette Sale left children locked in the room at the Phoenix [...]

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