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Job market challenge for disabled

As a week of BBC features looking at the issues facing people with disabilities - Access All Areas - continues, what challenges does the job market give disabled job-seekers? Job hunting at the best of times can be a demoralising process. But if you are disabled and the country is in the midst of an economic downturn, then it can prove utterly pointless.

3 Dec 2010
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Disabled woman says mobility cash cuts must be reversed

A disabled woman in a Dorset care home says the government's scrapping of mobility payments will have a "devastating impact" on her life. From October 2012, the £49.50 a week "mobility component" of the Disability Living Allowance, for some care home residents and children, will be axed.

3 Dec 2010
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Tim uses World AIDS day to call for an HIV-free generation by 2015

Marking World AIDS Day, Liberal Democrat party president-elect Tim Farron MP boarded the Stop AIDS Campaign bus outside Parliament this week to show his support for the effort to bring an end to children being born with HIV by 2015. Tim met with campaigners from the Stop AIDS Campaign and joined them in their call for the government to lead the world in the effort to deliver an AIDS-free generation by giving its fair share to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

3 Dec 2010
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