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Nursing home probed after residents’ personal details are found in the street

By John Pring on 19th March 2020 Category: Human Rights

Nursing home probed after residents’ personal details are found in the street
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A nursing home is facing an investigation into a “very serious” breach of data protection laws, after detailed personal information about its 36 disabled residents was apparently found in the street. The four-page document contains the names of all 36 residents […]

Disabled ex-Lib Dem MP backs IDS over WCA suicide report ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 4th February 2016 Category: Politics

Disabled ex-Lib Dem MP backs IDS over WCA suicide report ‘cover-up’
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A disabled former Liberal Democrat MP has refused to criticise the Tory work and pensions secretary for covering up a report that linked the “fitness for work” test with a disabled man’s suicide. Stephen Lloyd, who narrowly lost his Eastbourne seat […]

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