Recent comments
Most recent annotations on things by Anne McGuire
- john doe: The Local Government and Communities Committee of the Scottish Parliament raised similar points in their report to the Finance Committee on the 2009-10 budget last December (2008). They also... (14 May 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Paul Peros: That's partly what I referred to by carers not having a voice. It is a particular worry if carers feel that the organisations meant to represent them are not being listened to, or are even having... (16 April 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - dean stockton: Carers do have a voice it is just that the government choose to ignore it and the carers charities will say whatever the government tells them. Carers contact MPs and receive standardised... (2 April 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Paul Peros: Many carers often can't speak for themselves because they have no real way of being heard. It is important to listen to carers within and outside organisations to get a good and balanced set of... (2 April 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Clive Arnold: "Tony Rhodes: Lets hope the government actually listens to the CARERS ORGANISATIONS for once, usually we are ignored" No, let's hope they listen to CARERS because Carers don't need charities... (2 April 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tony Dennis: One of the major points, that is constantly overlooked is the fact that it costs twice as much to run a household with a disabled person in it, than it does to run one without, but carers are... (2 April 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tony Rhodes: Lets hope the government actually listens to the CARERS ORGANISATIONS for once, usually we are ignored. (1 April 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tony Rhodes: Running a carers group i find this sort of term you use cropping up all over the place,How carers can be encouraged and supported to balance their caring responsibilities and employment,? Is it... (1 April 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Cheryl Dobbinson: As many councils services are being cut back, closed or priced out of many peoples reach every week all over the UK if Mrs McGuire were to read the newspapers no doubt she would be in a state of... (1 April 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - john thorman: The document was so simplistic my nine year old newphew read it and sneered. It included the following interview Top Tips! Avoid questions about pay,shifts,holdays,childcare and transport.... (26 March 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - john thorman: The document was so simplistic my nine year old newphew read it and sneered. It included the following interview Top Tips! Avoid questions about pay,shifts,holdays,childcare and transport.... (26 March 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - john thorman: On the 22nd of May 2007 we were informed via video by Bob Warner chief executive of Remploy, that Stockton factory was to be closed. We were told at this point that we could remain with... (26 March 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Mrs Pat Dale: I'm shop steward for the Halifax site and I'm appauled at how long the whole process is taking Remploy senior management say they want to put 20,000 disabled people into mainstream employment, we... (26 July 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tony Gledhill: No compulsory redundancies for disabled people does not cover displaced staff members- the job ceases to exist - the disabled person dong that job gets displaced and 95% of the time drops back to... (5 July 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - John Hawkshaw BEM: John Hawkshaw BEM: I too have attended meetings as a consortium member, The directors have not turned up to all the meetings as the terms of reference were laid down as the minister asked. We as... (15 June 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tony Gledhill: The true Remploy is the Factory network, Interwork can exist along side it but should not replace it. The Boards proposals are to remove the Factory network leaving no choice for the displaced... (14 June 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tony Gledhill: PWC did not carry out a forensic examination of the Remploy accounts, they depended upon Remploy management supplied figures. These figures were skewed to show Remploy in the worst possible... (14 June 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tartan Giant: There is a complication with two benefits that are essentially for income maintenance being paid to the same person for the same purpose at the same time. ... (5 June 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - ken maddison: Being able to earn £87 a week is of no use whatsoever to a carer who's caring duty takes up 24 hours of every day. I have done this for 36 years but now I am on state pension I do it for... (5 June 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Adrian Nash: Child poverty may well be eradicated but it will be replaced by working peoples poverty by the imoral system of Council Tax that now burdens so many households so unfairly. Where is Labours... (19 March 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Sally Driscoll: This is plainly and simply discrimination against disabled people under 60, as they, too face the same "pressure of fuel costs in the winter". Yet another social disgrace of this irresponsible... (1 December 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Clive Arnold: Pensioners on DLA or Attendance Allowance get teh Winter Heating Allowance, will the government take teh Winter Heating Allowance away from them? I mean they do already (going by Mcguire's... (28 November 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Alix Cull: For people with severe and enduring meental illness (particularly schizophrenia & clincal depression) they remain disabled when receiving the necessary medication which may result in them showing... (18 October 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Clive Arnold: The working group consisting of charities the government 'donate' heavily to? Should be a really impartial result When is the government going to consult the people affected badly by their... (11 October 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tony Gledhill: Today, there were many frightened Disabled people in Remploy who had been told of the prospect of losing their jobs because of the way Remploy has been mis-managed. Bob Warner (Chief Exec) has... (21 July 2006)
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