BEIJING - Disabled people in China's rural areas will enjoy full coverage by all the country'ssocial security systems by 2015, the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF) said onThursday.
According to the CDPF-published Outline for Poverty Relief and Development for DisabledPersons in Rural Area (2011-2020), those social security systems include the minimum livingsecurity system, new cooperative health care system, and the new rural social pensioninsurance system.
The outline said that the household incomes of 10 million disabled people in rural area will beimproved by 2015 due to the government support, and community rehabilitation service will beprovided around the country.
ACTORS Sarah Parish, known for her role in BBC television drama Mistresses, and Roger Lloyd Pack of Only Fools and Horses, are supporting a campaign to raise £1million to improve a pioneering special school in Islington.
The Bridge School has 150 pupils aged 2-19 with autistic spectrum disorders, severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties.
Ms Parish said: “The work the Bridge School does with disabled children is incredible.
Yesterday at 7.55 pm, when the news came that Francesco Schettino could go home, it was clear that investigators were looking into other people’s responsibilities in the Costa Concordia disaster. The captain of the cruise line is certainly to blame but he is probably not the only culprit. Hence the need to reconstruct all that evening’s communications and in particular the orders given by his superiors at the Costa company. Investigators want to know what advice Captain Schettino received when he spoke to Roberto Ferrarini, the man in charge of Costa’s crisis unit and fleet management.
