At last, someone else has realised that lots of us (with disabilities, who are older, from ethnic minorities, with limited English or just awful internet connections) have huge problems contacting our GPs when they increasingly rely on “digital”. The Equality…
Neither! And you should be ashamed of not recognising a skep-in-the-making. This weekend gone was the National Bee convention held at Harper Adams University in darkest Shropshire. The sous-chef spent a day working on the microscope: pollen and dissected…
I want to encourage as many people as possible to have a look at the Government’s recent Green Paper on supporting more disabled people to work. Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper –…
Loads of disabled people want to work. I spent years working in an area with the 4th highest level of disabled people in the local population. There were masses keen to work and we had a 40% success rate. Harvest…
Latest from HMRC: Dear customer, Knowing what business expenses you can claim for, along with regular record keeping, can help you keep track of how your business is doing – as well as making sure you pay the right…
Congratulations to Health Secretary Wes Streeting for deploying extra health teams to some of our most deprived areas. Perhaps he heard my talk last week (scroll to 1 hr32mins for 20 minutes of ideas). Now we need the Chancellor plus…
Last Saturday was International Women’s Day and I was speaking at a worldwide online conference organised by the World Association for Sustainable Development (Queen Mary University of London). The 20 minute talk is recorded at: (scroll through to 1…
What holds women back worldwide? Hot topics: Balancing work and family, working in research and agriculture, the risks of disability, gender equality and empowerment. Take some time for yourself, put your feet up and join our international conference at 1030…
Dear customer, The National Minimum Wag…
New ‘Help for Hustles’ campaign HMRC has launched a new ‘Help for Hustles’ campaign this month to help those earning extra income through side hustles to get their tax right.What is a ‘side hustle’?A ‘side hustle’ describes ways of…
