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Equality Bill: Making it work - Ending age discrimination in services and public functions - Policy statement
Free course to help smaller firms bid for government contracts
Supporting People: Case studies in effective partnership working
Scottish committee to investigate legalising assisted suicide - MSP Margo McDonald, who has Parkinson's disease, tables bill to allow doctors to end terminally-ill patients' lives
Mother guilty of murdering disabled son - woman sentenced to nine years for injecting lethal dose of heroin despite plea she acted 'with love'
Early Estimates for Working Age Inactive Benefit Client Groups
Social Work Task Force: Speech by Baroness Delyth Morgan
How Asian women made trade union history and shattered stereotypes - as the courageous stand by Asian women during the Grunwick dispute in the 1970s is honoured in a new exhibition, Sarfraz Manzoor meets the leader of the 'strikers in saris'
Welfare reform: Fewer people left behind in this recession
Better protection for vulnerable adults
New programme to make health inequalities everybody's business
The Equality Bill: Duty to reduce socio-economic inequalities - A guide
CABE: Design and access statements - How to read, write and use them
Free mobile calls for benefit claimants starting from 18 January
Secretary of State thanks NHS and social care staff for their efforts during the recent cold weather
50 years on, an apology to thalidomide scandal survivors
John Denham: Government is committed to tackling inequality and disadvantage wherever it exists
Pensioners are 'missing out on cold weather payments'
Access to volunteering: Closing date for second round of funding
Free laptops and broadband for 270,000 families across the country in ground-breaking scheme
Harriet Harman plans to scrap forced retirement - Minister for equality wants people to carry on working into late 60s, 70s and 80s - if they want to
Severe Weather: Government help and advice - Updated
Harman: Socio-economic duty crucial to equality
Winter Fuel Payment
Cold Weather Payments
Mother 'seemed insane' before allegedly killing brain-damaged son, court hears
Doctor backs law change to help terminally ill die
Retreat on 'draconian' testing for disability benefit - ministers warned that rule changes mean many with genuine health problems
Number of people aged 100 and over to double in next 10 years
Make a New Year's resolution to look in on older neighbours
Disabled Children's Access to Childcare Pilot Activity
£12.5 million extra help for childcare for disabled children
Equality: 'Rethink' on equality chief's GBP1,000 a day - Government defends its decision amid accusations money is being thrown at equality watchdog
The new Compact is launched
A stronger voice and more support for parents of children with special educational needs
Increase in parental satisfaction with services for their disabled children
Equality and Human Rights Commission: Just Ageing
Aiming High for Disabled Children: Improving data
Beckett in British Sign Language? Why deaf theatre is coming of age
Disabled people to get right to control services
Parental Experiences of Services Provided to Disabled Children: 2009-10
New legacy promise puts disabled people at the heart of London 2012
Equality and Human Rights Commission to investigate disability-related harassment and role of public authorities
Equality Bill passed by House of Commons
Promoting the Safety and Security of Disabled People: Research report
Inquiry on disability harassment begins - councils that fail to protect disabled people could face legal action, says equality watchdog
Is it time to claw back the benefits of older age? Lemmy and the free bus pass for all over-60s highlight universal benefits flaws that need addressing in the face of public spending cuts
Equality Bill may give option to recruit under-represented people
Equality and Human Rights Commission issues compliance notices to three local authorities on gender inequality
Walking in a winter wonderland on a national trail
Celebrate safely this Christmas: Don't drown in toxic smoke
Setting up a Community Interest Company - Tom Pratt, a solicitor at Bates Wells and Braithwaite solicitors, looks in more detail at Community Interest Companies
Working Benefits Campaign: Raising awareness of benefits that can be paid in work
Equality and Human Rights Commission announces recipients of its Strategic Funding Programme
Who will help the volunteers?
Social enterprise is big business - a new survey shows social enterprises are playing a key role in public service provision, and are a successful and growing business sector
Queen's Speech 2009
New grants aim to get more disabled people volunteering
More families will be lifted out of poverty as landmark Welfare Reform Act gets royal assent
Ruling opens court of protection to media - outlets including the Guardian win right to attend hearings held in normally secretive court about celebrity with learning difficulties
Priority to support the third sector during the recession
The Home of the Future: Speech by John Healey
Phillips faces calls to quit as chair of the equalities commission - parliamentary committee accuses Trevor Phillips of 'sanitising' criticism and having conflicts of interest
Equality and Human Rights Commission launches human rights strategy
An article about shared spaces went out with the October 2009 Newsletter. This press release issued by the National Federation of the Blind UK was issued last week:
The National Federation of the Blind welcomes the action taken by the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association to take legal action against the Royal London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Over 70 members of the Federation, supported by other organisations suporting the 'Stop Shared Streets' campaign, travelled from all parts of the country on 24 September to demonstrate outside the offices of the Council.
Despite sending letters to the Council, not one of them has replied to our protest.
The Federation knows that where shared streets have been introduced in many parts of urope, they are 'no go' areas for blind people.
All pedestrians need safe pavements to walk on and pedestrian crossings to cross on.
Jill Allen-King, MBE, who is totally blind and has a guide dog, says that some members of the Federation have been successful in stopping such dangerous schemes in many parts of the country, and will continue to campaign until all pavements and crossings are retained, and,where they have been removed, such as in Ashford in Kent, and in Warwick, will fight to have them put back.
For further information contact Jill Allen-King MBE, Public Relations Officer on any of these numbers.
Tel: 01702 477899
Mobile: 07850 515100
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