Disabled by disabled toilets… 0 comments
Disabled toilets need attention I cover the topic of Changing Places quite frequently, but have paid less attention to what we might describe as ordinary disabled toilets. These are very [...]
More magistrates needed 6 comments
Drive to recruit more magistrates Magistrates – volunteers who don’t need legal qualifications – deal with 90% of criminal cases in local courts. They are a cornerstone of the justice [...]
Prevention of Future Deaths 0 comments
Coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths Reports Coroners have a mechanism for flagging up systemic organisational failures which are likely to cause more deaths – it is called a Prevention of [...]
Parosmia and malnutrition 4 comments
Parosmia – a less familiar consequence of COVID I’m guessing that you are now familiar with anosmia, or loss of smell, even if you didn’t previously know of this once [...]
DWP Independent Case Examiner 2 comments
DWP Independent Case Examiner’s annual report The annual report from the DWP’s Independent Case Examiner (ICE), Joanna Wallace, has been published, with the least possible amount of hullabaloo in the [...]
Goldilocks on sleep… 0 comments
The Goldilocks principle – Not too much, Not too little I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that the clocks go back this coming Sunday. A welcome extra hour in [...]
CASCAIDr – unenforceable Care Act rights 1 comment
CASCAIDr’s founder, Belinda Schwehr, on adult social care In the week running up to the London Legal Walk in support of frontline free legal advice services, Belinda Schwehr took to [...]
Wetwheels x 10 0 comments
Wetwheels x 10 The man who launched boating charity Wetwheels a decade ago to give disabled people the opportunity to feel “free and independent on the water” has announced exciting [...]