In this episode, Emma Tracey gets reaction to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spending plans from Fazilet Hadi of Disability Rights UK. Plus Stephen Kingdom from the Disabled Children’s Partnership on the Budget announcement that £105 million is to be spent on building schools for students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
There’s also an interview with Henry Fraser. Once an aspiring rugby player, he was paralysed from the neck down in a diving accident and has since become famous for painting using his mouth and a specially-adapted paint brush.
The episode was made by Daniel Gordon with Niamh Hughes and Emma Tracey. The editor is Alex Lewis. Recorded by Hannah Montgomery. Sound design by Dave O’Neill.
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