Tag: disabled people

Community Cabs to provide lifeline for Leeds disabled residents

A new ‘Community Cabs’ scheme will soon be helping disabled residents in Leeds get around the city much more easily. Middleton-based community development organisation Health For All is starting a Community Cabs service, which offers an accessible car to carry a wheelchair passenger – and a couple of friends, colleagues

Plans to fight the “Bedroom Tax” in Middleton

The campaign group Hands Off Our Homes have called a public meeting in Middleton to galvinise opposition to the Bedroom Tax. The Bedroom Tax, officially called the “Under-occupation Penalty”, is a reduction to Housing Benefit for people deemed to have more bedrooms than they need. It is part of a