News round up - Remploy plans factory closures and life with a 'bionic body'
- which provides sheltered work for people with disabilities - is planning to shut 36 of its 54 factories. More than 1,700 jobs are at risk.
Minister for Disabled People Maria Miller said the sites could be closed by the end of the year as they were not financially viable.
Shortly after the Remploy announcement, Labour MP Liam Byrne tweeted, "The welfare reform bill has been law for a week. And the govt has immediately moved to close 2/3 of Remploy factories. Wrong plan wrong time".
Mark Goldring, Chief Executive of Mencap, said that it is a deeply sad moment when anyone with a disability loses their jobs. But he welcomed any plans to promote more employment of disabled people in the wider economy.
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