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Archive: October, 2010
I recently received the following email via the contact form:
I thought you may be interested in learning that CVS Caremark launched a Facebook page for its philanthropic program All Kids Can, a five-year, $25 million commitment aimed at making life easier for children with disabilities. We hope you will check it out at http://www.facebook.com/CVSCaremarkAllKidsCan?ref=ts
The page is [...]
I recently received a message via my Twitter account (why not ‘follow me’) asking me if I’d like to link to a site called Never Alone. But, as will be apparent if you have had a look around the site, I do not have a links section as such. Effectively the individual posts act as links [...]
A couple of weeks back I attended an exhibition at Olympia. It was for my job and not related to special needs or disability in any way. So I was quite surprised to find an exhibition stand in one corner of the hall, manned by a lady with a glove puppet, and it appeared to be [...]
Disabled people in care who want to live more independently are being prevented from doing so by funding wrangles between local authorities, reports Saba Salman [...]
I sat in my kitchen yesterday afternoon, switched on the laptop, and checked the Google newsfeed on the site. A headline from The Guardian attracted my attention and I clicked through. My wife wandered in looked at the screen and asked me the blindingly obvious – “whatcha doin?”
“Reading a news story on The Guardian”, I replied.
“Oh. [...]
Everyday my children return home from their respective schools seemingly laden down with bits of paper – newletters, information about up-coming trips, pleas for money for this or that, forms to fill in for after-school clubs, etc, etc. Occasionally there’s also information about stuff external to school. My son’s school, the Ridgeway Community School, is especially [...]
One of the most comprehensive studies into fairness in the UK shows how class, race and gender remain crucial factors in determining how British pupils succeed at school – and beyond
Get the key data [...]
My heart belongs in Devon. I went to school there for 5 years and have missed it ever since leaving at 18 years of age. One of my closest friends lives in Exeter and has a business there (Burgoynes Estate Agents). That gives meĀ all the excuses I need to get back down there as often as [...]
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