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Wirral youngsters get help to plan their futures - Wirral Globe 27th October 2009
"YOUNG people from Wirral with learning difficulties and disabilities have attended an event designed to help them plan for their futures.
'Your Future Your Choice' gave young people leaving school, parents and carers the advice they needed to plan their next steps into further education, training and employment. "
Pentagon hacker wins a US extradition delay for psychiatric review - The Times 17th October 2009
"Lawyers for the Home Secretary have agreed to delay moves to extradite Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker, pending a review of fresh psychiatric evidence.
Last week Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was refused permission to take his case to the S"
Adult autism sufferers 'cast adrift' - Daily Telegraph 15th October 2009
"Autism sufferers are being "cast adrift" when they become adults because of a lack of knowledge and awareness among health and social care staff, MPs have said. "
Adults with autism 'cast adrift' - BBC Health News 14th October 2009
"Adults with autism in England are often not being diagnosed or supported properly, MPs say.
The Commons' Public Accounts Committee said the lack of understanding about the condition among GPs and social care staff was a key problem. "
Autistic jobseekers 'written off' - BBC Health News 13th October 2009
"People with autism are condemned to financial hardship by poor employment and benefits support, a charity says.
The National Autistic Society (NAS) is calling for a national strategy to help people with autism into work. "
People with autism 'condemnded to poverty' - The Independent 12th October 2009
"Fewer than one in six people with autism are in full-time employment and a third live without a job or benefits, the National Autistic Society says.
In a report, the charity accuses the Government of condemning people with autism to a life of poverty. "
The company that turned 'disability' into an asset - The Independent 12th October 2009
"When Thorkil Sonne was told that his three-year-old son had autism, the Danish IT specialist ran the classic gamut of responses for parents of an autistic child, from anger that a doctor could burden his happy boy with the label of a lifelong disability, to a desire to learn everything about the condition. "
Inquiry launched after Cumbria social worker urges police to arrest disabled man - Cumberland News 9th October 2009
"A social worker advised care workers who were trying to calm down a distressed autistic man with the mental age of a toddler to have him arrested.
But the police officers called out by 49-year-old Ian Air’s carers refused."
Careers event for young Wirral people with learning difficulties and disabilities - Wirral Globe 8th October 2009
"A SPECIAL event to help Wirral young people with learning difficulties and disabilities plan for their futures is to be held this month at Hulme Hall.
"Your Future Your Choice," on October 20, will give young people leaving school, parents and carers the advice they need to plan their next steps into further education, training and employment. "
Parents quizzed over hanging death - The Guardian 2nd September 2009
"The mother and stepfather of an eight-year-old girl found hanged in her bedroom are being quizzed by police in connection with her death.
Simon and Susan Moody were arrested more than two weeks after the body of Charlotte Avenall was found at their home in Mansfield, Notts."
'Meeting my father was a shock' - BBC Health News 29th September 2009
On first meeting, there is little evidence of the internal struggle Chris Goodchild faces daily as someone living with Asperger's Syndrome, a high functioning form of autism.
"I don't have the ability to put onto my face the distress that I feel," says Chris, one of an estimated 500,000 people in the UK with autism spectrum disorder.
Letters: Autism and society's definition of 'normal' - The Guardian 29th Setember 2009
Denis Campbell's piece (Shortcuts, G2, 24 September) highlighting that 1 in 100 adults has autism shows that it is surely time to stop calling autism, ADHD, Asperger's syndrome etc "disorders" and, worse still, "mental illness", as frequently happens in the media.
Police errors contributed to suicide of tormented mother Fiona Pilkington - The Guardian 28th September 2009
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to launch an investigation into the way the "distressing" case was handled
'Family A' – the notorious Simmonses of Bardon Road - The Guardian 28th September 2009
Family's four boys were seen amongst groups harassing Fiona Pilkington and Francecca Hardwick but deny any wrongdoing
Francecca Hardwick: portrait of a victim - The Guardian 28th September 2009
Despite increasing physical problems, 'Frankie' had a huge sense of fun
Profile: Fiona Pilkington - The Guardian 28th September 2009
38-year-old faced a doubly difficult life: caring for two vulnerable teenage children while coping with mental ill-health
Coroner's drive for full inquest into Pilkington case - The Guardian 28th September 2009
Olivia Davison clashed with police lawyers for asking awkward questions and raising wider social issues
Pilkington case may be a Lawrence moment for disability hate crime - The Guardian 28th September 2009
Campaigners hope case will be a turning point, like the Stephen Lawrence murder was for the policing of racist crime
Why did nobody listen to them? - The Independent 29th September 2009
A series of blunders by police and social workers left a mother feeling so isolated that she burned herself and her disabled daughter to death after a 10-year hate campaign by youths made their lives intolerable.
Fiona Pilkington killed her daughter Francecca Hardwick, 18, and herself by setting light to the family car in a lay-by on the A47 near their home in Barwell, Leicestershire, after giving up on receiving help from police or the local authorities, a jury found yesterday.
'They were so evil towards Francecca – they just would not leave her alone' - The Independent 29th September 2009
There is little love lost between Alex Simmons and his neighbours on Barwell's Bardon Road, to outward appearances a quietly unremarkable 1930s-built neighbourhood on the rural fringes of an ancient Midlands village.
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