Disability campaigners demand Government action on services

DISABILITY campaigners yesterday threw down a post-Special Olympics challenge to the Government to get off the starting block in safeguarding services and supports for the 120,000 citizens with disabilities.

Sixty groups representing people with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities, as well as mental illness, issued a series of demands on behalf of their members including:

The conversion of community employment schemes to permanent posts to protect 6,000 people under threat of losing their home helps and personal assistants.