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254:, the largest disability campaigning organisation in the country, and was published in early 2012. The review concluded that there would be inevitably be people who failed to benefit from whatever the government did, but that the best use of government money would be to concentrate on getting disabled people into mainstream work, rather than subsidising disabled-only factories.
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