Broadwater Path
A few people have been asking where the new Broadwater path is located. There is no official right of way as yet - that...
10 Mar 2013
National News
Special Educational Needs Not Being Properly Addressed
Liberal Democrat Councillor Mark Watkin, Opposition Spokesperson for Education, challenged Hertfordshire County Council's Executive Member for Education, Conservative Councillor Frances Button, to explain how services will address the needs of specific groups who cannot cope with schools, such as high achieving children with autism. She failed to do so. Instead she repeated the standard response that they could either attend a Moderate Learning Difficulty school; or have home help; or attend a mainstream school - none of which will adequately meet the needs of many of these children.
10 Mar 2013
Special Educational Needs Not Being Properly Addressed
Liberal Democrat Councillor Mark Watkin, Opposition Spokesperson for Education, challenged Hertfordshire County Council's Executive Member for Education, Conservative Councillor Frances Button, to explain how services will address the needs of specific groups who cannot cope with schools, such as high achieving children with autism. She failed to do so. Instead she repeated the standard response that they could either attend a Moderate Learning Difficulty school; or have home help; or attend a mainstream school - none of which will adequately meet the needs of many of these children.
10 Mar 2013
Sarah Yong makes debut at Women's Rally
Born in Edinburgh to a Chinese Malaysian father and Scottish mother, Sarah Yong 勇莎拉, was brought up in Somerset where she attended local state schools. A graduate from University of Sheffield in Politics and History Sarah is currently head of office for Tessa Munt MP.
9 Mar 2013
Cardiff University study finds disabled people twice as likely to be violently attacked at work
A Cardiff University study has found disabled workers are twice as likely to be attacked Researchers at Cardiff University and Plymouth University have published the results of a study which suggests that disabled people are more likely to receive unfair treatment from colleagues and bosses at work, and are twice as likely to be the victims of physical violence.
9 Mar 2013
Disability Rights: Neil Burden, Second Cornwall Councillor To Say 'Too Many Disabled Children Who Cost Too Much'
Neil Burden is an independent councillor Another councillor in Cornwall is facing a backlash after saying there were "too many disabled children" and referring to a disabled child who had died as "it".
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9 Mar 2013