A lot of disabled students get support at university for all different reasons whether it be physical, mental health or a learning need but unfortunately what often happens is that students don't receive this support until they are 6 months or even in some case a year into their first year of study. As you can imagine this can be very stressful, upsetting and can have a massive impact on the student and their ability to do the degree. Must people just get on with studying, while others who can't do anything without the support have to catch up once the support is approved and put in place. Unfortunately this has happened to me this year. It is now the end of January and I still haven’t got all the support in place need in order for me to even start studying. So it looks like I’m going to have to catch up on all my work between now and May 2016. Every person I have spoken that has applied for disability support has also not received a mentor, equipment or maybe a tutor that they need to study until after they have started their degree course. It’s amazing we have a society that supports people with different needs but unless this issue changes people with a disability will struggle to complete a degree course. Please join me in getting Justin Tomlinson to change the time scales and deadlines for disabled support allowance, student finance and make sure people receive and are set up for study before they even start their degree course.

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Once a month, I take my blind amputee brother to Asda supermarket in Perth. During our last visit to the store, we were appalled at our treatment following the use of a disabled parking space. I discovered a fine which had been imposed on the grounds that my brother (who has lived in a care home for many years and cannot drive for obvious reasons) does not have a blue badge to display. Why should a genuinely disabled person be fined in an Asda car park for not displaying a blue badge? Blue Badge Scotland clearly state on their website: "The Blue Badge scheme is for drivers or passengers with severe mobility problems. The scheme provides a range of on-street parking concessions enabling Blue Badge holders to park closer to where they need to go. The scheme does not apply to off-street car parking, for example in privately operated car parks at supermarkets or airports." I immediately contested this fine with the store management and was shocked to discover that Asda have no power to waive these fines under any circumstances. This is because Asda allow a private company - Smart Parking - to run many of their car parks across the country. This company exploits the blue badge system under their "contract" agreement and employ their own staff to cowardly affix parking fines to windshields without care or consideration for who could be using this space. By allowing such a company to run their parking areas, Asda are complicit in this greedy money making exercise. Following my formal complaint, I had a call from an Asda corporate employee who claims to be among the highest echelons of customer service representatives. This individual showed no understanding or compassion whatsoever, responding to my issue with cold bureaucracy. This employee showed (as with any other member of Asda management that i have discussed this issue with) utter incompetence in understanding the difference between criminal law and contract law. I have been persistently shamed as having “broken the law”, which is absolutely not the case. Perhaps the most shocking revelation during this call is that Asda have confirmed they DO NOT provide their own spaces for disabled people who do not have (perhaps have forgotten or never had the need for) a blue badge. Their best suggestion was that I use the drop off point at the front door. This shows an incredible lack of understanding as they expect me to leave my blind, wheelchair bound brother unattended while I find a regular space. My brother is effectively barred from Asda as there are no suitable spaces to allow safe access to their stores. This amounts to discrimination against disabled customers, as confirmed in my correspondence with Citizens Advice Scotland. They have suggested that there is a strong argument here for the discrimination against the disabled and they have notified trading standards with regards to this issue. I am grateful to have guidance and support of local mps and msps on this matter in addition to a local newspaper that intends to run our story. PLEASE SIGN this petition to help prevent other people from suffering this discrimination, humiliation and indignity while visiting their local Asda store. N.B. Tesco have confirmed that they do not treat their disabled customers in this way and are equally shocked by the conduct of Asda.

For the leader of our country to make remarks so carelessly about such a terrible issue is in my eyes unforgivable and shameful. This is the man elected to represent us all in the UK on the world stage and I for one would like to see him make amends for this error by learning more about the issue he casually commented on.

Tesco have been caught out and then admitted to delaying payments to suppliers to improve its own financial position. Despite bringing financial misery to the owners, the threat of bankruptcy and job losses to some of their smaller suppliers, Tesco's have not offered them any direct apologies, financial recompense and to top it all, they also have avoided any fines by the Grocery Code Adjudicator. Whilst recognising that Tesco claims to have changed these unfair practises towards suppliers they have done nothing in attempting to make good the damage they have done.

The NHS has always been free at the point of delivery - that's one of the principles on which it was created (see: fatpod.org). Millions of ordinary people rely on this principle. I was lucky enough to know my great-grandmother, who raised her family of 5 before the NHS existed. She told me of family meetings, when someone was ill, to decide which meals would be skipped in order to be able to pay for them to see a doctor. We cannot allow government to re-create a "pre-NHS" society by charging directly for NHS services or demanding private insurance policies for healthcare (which would only benefit insurance companies). We already have insurance for free-at-the-point-of-delivery healthcare - it's called National Insurance (NI), to which we all contribute when we can. Individuals should not be penalised financially for being ill and needing NHS services. The website fatpod.org is dedicated to keeping the National Health Service "FATPOD" - Free At The Point Of Delivery. You can find more information there.

Our children are becoming increasingly unwell physically, mentally and emotionally and are in dire need of adequate education in this area. If we want to prosper as a nation, we have to make learning about personal, social and environmental well-being as important as learning to read and write. Only healthy people can create a healthy nation and our children are the leaders and positive change-makers of tomorrow.

Because dental health is important. People need to have the same basic rights as those who can pay

The language appeals to xenophobes and irrational nationalists. The city of Brussels is itself not politically involved. The BBC should set the standard and not seek to inflame opinion by giving the false impression that another country is passing laws above our own. They are passed by something we are members of which seeks to establish common democratic standards. This is not a minor grammatical mistake, it is part of a systematic bias, a poor habit and poor journalism.

This is so important.. how can a child custody case be judged honesty and truthfully if one or both parents cannot afford representation. .. it means that the parent who CAN afford a lawyer has an advantage over the other, as he or she will not know the law as well as a lawyer. This means that the child's welfare is NOT being judged fairly

This is so important because the goverment thinks that the homeless people are invisible ... they are not, we all see them every day. We all see that our goverment no longer represent us and must stand together. First the homeless next the old and the disabled next the sick and the weak .... NO! NO! NO! this the line .... sign please . We need to come together now! x I'm just some guy who has had enough. bless your heart for reading this.

Customers are buying mobile phones which are usually locked to a network only to find they are not enabled to transfer to another network in a timely manner. It is bad enough that a fee should be charged for the transfer, but to not allow the transfer in a timely manner of say 3 days and exacerbating the situation for a month or more is ridicuous and a problematic vexation to the consumer and is certainly not necessary. Case in point: I purchased an £80 mobile from ASDA as Vodafone pay as you go for my son. My son used the mobile for 6 months. I was offered by Virgin a good deal on extra mobile numbers on my account and so agreed and pay for the service for my son. I called Vodafone and explained the situation and they gave me a PUK code to transfer the number, which I have used and received the new SIM card from Virgin. On putting the new SIM card in the mobile I discovered that the mobile was locked to vodafone and so I called them.Vodafone had not informed me that I would need to pay £19.99 to unlock the network and told me that since I had ported the number I would now need to purchase a new Vodafone SIM and put £20 credit on it to pay for the unlocking. I purchased the new SIM and put £20 credit on it and called Vodafone again only to discover that I would need to use the credit and the Vodafone SIM for a month before they would even allow me to transfer the mobile to another network. We the customer are being treated abysmally by these network providers and OFCOM the government body put in place to protect the consumer and who are funded by the tax payer, have done little to prevent this malpractice. Let's make the world a better place and remove this vexation by getting fair legislation in place and regulated by OFCOM