Disability issues

This article is published in today's Leicester Mercury:

Disability issues

Dzine – Leicestershire's disability news agency, now holds its own Community News Cafe encouraging individuals and groups to attend and become community reporters. The team is especially keen to hear of people's experiences of the new Government scheme, Personalisation.

This enables individuals or their carers to have a personal care budget and adapt it according to their own choices.

However critics are concerned this has replaced the system of getting free care from individual authorities.

Coffee Republic, Granby Street, Leicester, hosts Dzine. Drop-in on Mondays between 10am and 11am.