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Ladybirds For Grown-Ups; IVF Add-Ons; Disability Benefits

The end of the road for Ladybird books for grownups? Are IVF clinics pushing expensive add-on treatments? And is benefit reform too much for those with learning disabilities?

Changes to the benefits system are leading some people with learning disabilities to take on jobs they just can't do. That's according to charities who are dealing with individuals adapting to new benefits and expectations. The Government wants to get 1 million more disabled people off benefits and into work by 2027.
But we've found that the push to get people off benefits and into work is going too far, too fast for some people with learning disabilities.

A couple from Gloucestershire is planning to sue a fertility clinic after they paid thousands of pounds for IVF add-on treatments that some experts say are useless.
Their lawyers hope others might join in a group litigation order, or class action, against clinics that offer therapies that have no proven benefits. We talk to Tracey and Mark Wint about why they're taking the case and whether there is any way to further regulate the growing IVF industry.

And the men who wrote the hit Ladybird books for grownups. Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris, describe how they were catapulted from being backroom TV gag writers by the success of their books and why they have decided to quit while they're ahead.

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  • Fri 23 Nov 2018 12:18

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