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Theresa May has vowed to tackle the ‘burning injustice’ of mental Illness. A damming Government report revealed one in six workers are suffering mental health symptoms – costing bosses up to £42billion a year. The …

Sir Bert Massie 1949-2017 Sir Bert Massie contracted polio when he was three years old – and then spent the rest of his life fighting for discrimination against disability to be outlawed. He campaigned to …

American designer, Tommy Hilfiger, has announced plans to expand his fashion collections and offer sartorial solutions for the disabled adults – a proposal that has received positive responses from disabled charities and organisations. Hilfiger’s new …

About 1.5 million men and 2.1 million women over 65 will be physically disabled by 2047, according to a study in BMJ Open.  Caroline Abrahams of AGE CONCERN, said that the population was ageing and infrastructure …

Charities are losing millions of pounds in donations because people are carrying less loose change. As more and more of us use contactless cards there is not so much need to carry around small coins …

The HMRC has suspended the ‘PA sleep in minimum wage enforcement’ for a further month. The Revenue is demanding the minimum wage and up to 6 years back pay for carers sleeping overnight. Enforcement was …

Britain’s armed forces are losing a battalion a year because of mental health problems. Our military (The Army, Royal Navy and The RAF) discharged 499 personnel in 2016/17 .. and that was almost double that …