Peter White on the Disability Newsletter

Hi; its hair shirt time for me, I'm afraid. Over a rather busy time since Christmas, I'm aware - indeed, some of you have made me aware that the Disability newsletter has been conspicuous by its absence! But we now have a master plan, that I hope will put things right! As part of my contribution to the Blogomania which is sweeping through You and Yours, I intend to use part of my blogging contributions to revive the service we've been trying to provide for those interested in our disability focussed output. So: that will include the background to the items covered on the programme, plus information about things coming up in the near future which you might be able to help us with, or express a view on. Plus, what other parts of the Radio Four network are covering on disability subjects, whether its documentaries, features, interviews, drama and the arts.

I'll be blogging on average monthly, which is how the original newsletters were intended to operate, so I sincerely hope that this will fill the bill: I'm sure you'll tell me if it doesn't.
This means that everyone will get these details, but we will email my blogs specifically to those people who were on the Disability newsletter mailing list, and can add people to that list if you let us know your details.

So: the first thing for me to do under the new arrangements is to say that on the Tuesday of next week (April 27th), both You and Yours and In Touch will be putting your questions to representatives of the three major parties specifically on disability issues, with In Touch concentrating on issues which relate to visual impairment.

We'd expect to be putting questions to them about things such as their plans for social care, policies on employment, provision for disabled people from public services such as health or public transport, disability benefits, or the need for additional legislation on discrimination; but basically, the floor is yours.

Clearly, we can't guarantee to use all questions, but we really would like these sessions to reflect what's on your mind. You can email your questions via the website - www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours.

I hope we've now got a formula which will ensure that you get regular information specifically about our disability-related output, which we're very keen to make as comprehensive as possible. Good Listening!

Peter White presents You and Yours and In Touch on BBC Radio 4

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