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Transport industry managers are failing to budget for access to be embedded from the start of major projects because of the lack of national accessibility standards, a meeting at this week’s Conservative party conference has heard. The fringe meeting in Birmingham […]
Several senior ministers who will play key roles in disability policy over the next few months have kept their jobs under new prime minister Andy Burnham. Burnham’s decision to keep Pat McFadden in post as work and pensions secretary caused particular […]
Disabled peers have played a significant role in improving a government bill that should improve the experiences of disabled air passengers, but they have promised to keep pressuring the government to make further vital changes. The civil aviation (consumer protection and […]
A newly-nationalised rail company desperately tried to settle three separate cases of discrimination taken against it by a disabled campaigner, just weeks after the firm was brought under state control. GTR (Govia Thameslink Railway) offered as much as £20,000 to Doug […]
Disabled peers have called on the government to ensure that an accessible rail system becomes a reality through its new railways bill, with no sign yet that ministers will listen to calls for a greater focus on accessibility and disability rights. […]
The government has been accused of an “outrageous” failure to listen to disabled campaigners and allies who have been calling for ministers to include far stronger measures on accessibility and disability rights in their railways bill. The bill finished its passage […]
Disabled passengers appear to be broadly satisfied with the accessibility of ferry and cruise ships, according to the results of a government survey. The latest survey, carried out in 2024, shows that 88 per cent of disabled passengers who received assistance […]
More than 50 disabled people have had to hand back their Motability vehicles since the company introduced a controversial and “discriminatory” new scheme that monitors how safely its customers are driving. Figures released to Disability News Service last night (Wednesday) show […]
Hundreds of disabled people have expressed anger and alarm over multiple aspects of the “punitive, discriminatory” changes that are being introduced to the Motability scheme. They responded on social media to coverage in Disability News Service (DNS) of government tax changes […]
An “absolutely awful” mobile phone app that helps the Motability scheme monitor the driving behaviour of increasing numbers of disabled people is securing overwhelmingly poor reviews from its customers. The Drive Smart scheme, which launched last August, allows Motability Operations to […]