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Obese 'struggle to earn living' - BBC Health News 2nd November 2009
"Obese people are struggling to earn above the national average income, according to a survey.
Just under half (46%) earn more than £20,000 a year, which is the national average, while the majority earn between £10,000 and £15,000. "
Paramedic suspended after letting trainee try to save patient who was already dead - Daily Telegraph 31st October 2009
"A senior paramedic was suspended for allowing a trainee to try and save a heart attack patient he knew had already died. "
Row as minister sacks drugs adviser - The Guardian 31st October 2009
"Home Secretary Alan Johnson has come under fire after he forced the Government's chief drugs adviser to resign in the wake of a row over the dangers of different substances.
Mr Johnson asked Professor David Nutt to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), saying he had "lost confidence" in his ability to give impartial advice."
Drugs policy: Shooting up the messenger - The Guardian 31st October 2009
"Professor David Nutt is an expert in his field: a professor of psychopharmacology at Bristol University and head of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London. He knows more about the brain's responses to anxiety, addiction and sleep than any politician or media commentator. He is precisely the sort of man who should be helping the government shape its drugs policy, which is why he was appointed and then reappointed to serve as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs."
Ben Quinn: Professor Nutt's sacking shows how toxic the drugs debate has become - The Guardian 31st October 2009
"Policy in the area has been a political battlefield for at least the last 40 years, and it shows no signs of getting any simpler, writes Ben Quinn"
Chief drug adviser David Nutt sacked over cannabis stance - The Guardian 30th October 2009
"Alan Johnson, the home secretary, has sacked Professor David Nutt as senior drugs adviser after the scientist renewed his criticism of the government's decision to toughen the law on cannabis.
Johnson wrote to Nutt saying he no longer had confidence in him as chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) and asking him to consider his position."
Sacked – for telling the truth about drugs - The Independent 31st October 2009
"The Government's drugs tsar was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.
The Home Secretary Alan Johnson asked Professor David Nutt to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), saying he had "lost confidence" in his ability to give impartial advice. "
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. "
Cameron pledges end to poverty trap for jobless - The Independent 28th October 2009
"Some of Britain's unemployed are worse off when they accept a job, David Cameron claimed yesterday as he promised to simplify the country's benefits system and put an end to the "poverty trap"."
92% of Britons believe admitting mental illness harms career - The Guardian 26th October 2009
"We must protect employees and job hunters with mental health problems from employers who are prejudiced about their ability to work, says Mohini Bharania"
Bosses to be told to offer more part-time work for parents - The Observer 25th October 2009
"Work and pensions secretary Yvette Cooper wants firms that advertise in jobcentres to consider part-timers"
Working mothers 'don't harm their children's development', major study reveals - The Observer 18th October 2009
"Improved childcare, flexibility at work and more help from fathers dispels myth, survey of 17,000 Britons finds"
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. "
Excessive maternity leave and huge sex discrimination payouts 'risk backfiring on women' - Daily Mail 15th October 2009
"Labour's equal rights laws risk harming the prospects of women in the workplace, one of Britain's top businesswomen said last night.
Nichola Pease, deputy chairman of JO Hambro capital management and a mother of three, said excessive maternity leave and eye-watering sex discrimination payouts could backfire on women. "
The girls living on just one meal a day: Teens risk health to copy stick-thin celebrities eating disorder anorexia bulimia - Daily Mail 13th October 2009
Teenage girls are routinely missing two meals a day because they believe they need to lose weight, a major survey of children's lifestyles has revealed.
Twenty-six per cent of 14 and 15-year-olds often don't eat breakfast, 22 per cent skip lunch and 10 per cent regularly go without either, the study found.
'Lost generation' fear as third of young are still on dole after six months - Daily Mail 13th October 2009
"More than one in three young people on the dole have been jobless for more than six months - the worst rate for 15 years.\n\nThe analysis from trade union research adds to growing evidence that the recession is giving rise to a 'lost generation'. "
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. "
Sharon Shoesmith was told of failings, court hears - The Guardian 8th October 2009
"Sharon Shoesmith, the former head of children's services at the centre of the Baby Peter case, was made aware of "very significant professional failings" in her department at Haringey before she was sacked, the high court heard today."
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