Disability Now July 2011 eNewsletter

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NEWS VIEW: Winterbourne legacy highlights rift on abuse Winterbourne reveals fundamental flaws in care system Editorial – TV's ultimate reality Dying is TV's final irony News Update – Sayce says no more Remploy subsidy Sayce review calls for end to Remploy subsidy Ruth Patrick – Cameron's bonfire for equality Populist Red Tape review threatens equality Disability Rights – Chair's pledge on human rights inquiry Human Rights committee pledge on cuts accountability

Winterbourne legacy highlights rift on abuse

Mediawatch – When love is deaf Heard on radio: the deaf love story Politics – Solidarity against cuts from TUC TUC's cuts anger: Disability conference report World View – Beyond Berlusconi's bunga bunga Berlusconi: Italy's big distraction One to Watch – Umesh bowled over by award Disabled Cricketer of the Year Umesh Valjee takes guard for our ten questions

Guest Column: Hate crime: the only way is Essex With abuse of disabled people once more making the headlines, Faye Savage describes how one disabled people's organisation has tapped its members lived experience to get at the facts on hate crime Your views – Letters Assisted suicide and BBC bias, more bad reaction to DLA reform and Winterbourne Mike Oliver – A matter of honour Where's the honour in honours?

Ask the Experts – Questions and answers Adapting a home to bring someone out of residential care

Hate crime: the only way is Essex

and what will PIP mean to retired people?

Pete's place – Winterbourne: home truths for all What does Winterbourne tell us about ourselves?

FEATURES: Harry Potter and the world of difference With the final film based on J K Rowling's massively successful series of children's books about to hit cinema screens, writer and children's book expert, Penelope Friday looks at attitudes towards difference and those who don't fit in this most different of worlds Features – Andy Walker talking up life As Emmerdale's controversial storyline on assisted suicide ramps up the negatives on disability, the show's other wheelchair-user, Andy Walker tells Annie Makoff he's doing all he can to bring his positive life view to the screen Obituary – Ironing out the rough spots Nasa Begum remembered Style – Attention all Petrol Heads Mik Scarlet on the right track Travel – The Great North Wall in the steps of legions Walking Hadrian's Wall: Rome's final frontier Tried and Tested – Sock-it-to-me time Why we asked Mik Scarlet to pull his socks up Helen Dolphin – Going green: the road ahead It's not easy being green Sport – Goalball: silence in court Goalball and the sound of silence

Harry Potter and the world of difference Credit: © 2010 Warner Bros. Entertainment inc

BACKLASH: Carter's famous last word Paul Carter considers his epitaph Entertainment – Designing for Bespoke solutions Reviewed, an exhibition on design Webwatch – YouTube if you want to Making YouTube work for you

Carter's famous last word

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