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Friday 18th Jan 13
Children and young people with disabilities (aged 8 to 18 years) and living in the Southend–on-Sea area have two exciting opportunities to benefit from this spring thanks to 'Buddies Go Camping... more
Thursday 17th Jan 13
As part of the ECC Survey January 2013, the county council is seeking to find out what matters to residents about where they live, in order to address housing needs.
Funding is available to develop... more
Thursday 27th Dec 12
To date, users of mental health services have not been able to choose how and where they receive treatment, unlike users of general NHS services.
In April 2014 this will change, in recognition of... more
Thursday 27th Dec 12
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is scheduled to replace Disability Living allowance as part of the government reformation of the current benefit system.
If you currently claim DLA and are... more
Monday 17th Dec 12
It well may be a world running in parallel and surprising human synchronicity, says DG Writer Kerry Barr...
In Essex, Danvers Massachusetts on the other side of the transatlantic pond, our American... more
Monday 17th Dec 12
Conservative Minister for the Disabled, Esther McVey has spoken in parliament about the process of replacing DLA benefits with Personal Independence Payments (PIP) in April, aiming to cut the cost of... more
Wednesday 12th Dec 12
DG Writer Kerry Barr considers the issues surrounding how society views disability, using our very own Dancing Giraffe as an example...
Anyone is welcome to use this diagnostic conundrum for... more
Wednesday 12th Dec 12
Essex residents are being urged by Essex County Council to travel with extra caution due to icy conditions across the County.
Below zero temperatures, combined with surface water and flooding caused... more
Tuesday 11th Dec 12
Mental decline speeds up in people aged over 50 who have high blood pressure and who smoke, a study suggests.
Tests were carried out on around 8,000 older adults in the English Longitudinal Study of... more
Tuesday 11th Dec 12
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is looking for patients and carers to take part in two research projects that will identify what needs to be done to improve access to sight-saving... more
Tuesday 04th Dec 12
Essex County Council has become the first local authority to commission a Social Impact Bond in Children’s Services, after awarding Social Finance a contract to provide therapeutic support and... more
Tuesday 04th Dec 12
‘Blue Badge’ and ‘style’ are not always the first words many people would naturally use together. However, Fiona Jarvis and her site Blue Badge Style aim to change that.
Fiona asks: why can we not... more
Monday 03rd Dec 12
Bodily and psychological pain remains notoriously elusive to any frustrated attempt at description, regardless how necessary, urgent or heartfelt the situation may be.
Many of us can readily testify... more
Monday 03rd Dec 12
A guide has been published by the Human Rights Commission which aims to offer a ‘lifeline to older people and their support networks.’
The guide entitled 'Your rights to home care' is an... more
Monday 03rd Dec 12
Over a third of participants with a diagnosis of depression reported experience of discrimination because of their condition, according to a global study led by an international team of researchers... more