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Disabled peer calls for radical changes to ensure ‘wraparound’ support

By John Pring on 16th May 2019 Category: Independent Living

Disabled peer calls for radical changes to ensure ‘wraparound’ support
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A disabled crossbench peer has called on the government to introduce a “comprehensive” scheme that would provide the kind of “wraparound” support that would allow disabled people to live an independent life. Baroness [Jane] Campbell called for a radical and comprehensive […]

More than £100 million in public funding… and no accessible showers

By John Pring on 9th May 2019 Category: Transport

More than £100 million in public funding… and no accessible showers
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A train company that has received more than £100 million in public subsidies to pay for new carriages for a sleeper service from Scotland to London has failed to provide any accessible on-board showers, even though it is providing such facilities […]

Airline forced to apologise after charging woman for carer’s seat reservation

By John Pring on 11th April 2019 Category: Transport

Airline forced to apologise after charging woman for carer’s seat reservation
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An airline has been forced to apologise to a disabled woman after it charged her extra to reserve a seat next to her for her carer, and then refused to refund the charge. Helen Jenkins had informed Flybe when she was […]

Disabled people ‘must keep fighting for their right to travel on public transport’

By John Pring on 21st March 2019 Category: Transport

Disabled people ‘must keep fighting for their right to travel on public transport’
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Disabled people must keep fighting for their right to travel on public transport, and should “challenge the status quo”, an accessible transport campaigner has told a conference. Alan Benson, chair of the user-led, pan-London organisation Transport for All, told Transport for […]

Watchdogs’ comments boost hopes for rail access improvements

By John Pring on 21st February 2019 Category: Transport

Watchdogs’ comments boost hopes for rail access improvements
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Powerful warnings from two watchdogs about the barriers faced by disabled passengers have been welcomed as a “wonderful step in re-instating access to rail for all” by a leading accessible transport expert. One of the two watchdogs, the Equality and Human […]

Two years on from Supreme Court bus ruling, protesters call for overdue action

By John Pring on 24th January 2019 Category: Transport

Two years on from Supreme Court bus ruling, protesters call for overdue action
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Campaigners have protested outside the Department for Transport (DfT) to call for new laws that would protect the rights of wheelchair-users to use buses, on the second anniversary of a ground-breaking Supreme Court victory. Two years ago (on 18 January), the […]

Double legal victory for access campaigner over underground discrimination

By John Pring on 17th January 2019 Category: Transport

Double legal victory for access campaigner over underground discrimination
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A court has found that London Underground twice discriminated against a disabled campaigner by failing to warn him that vital lifts that would allow him to complete his journey on the capital’s tube network were out-of-order. Doug Paulley found himself stranded […]

Nine journeys in one day expose ‘sham’ of National Express ‘accessible’ coaches

By John Pring on 10th January 2019 Category: Transport

Nine journeys in one day expose ‘sham’ of National Express ‘accessible’ coaches
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A disabled campaigner who took nine journeys on the same day to check the accessibility of the services provided by the UK’s largest coach operator experienced significant problems on all but one of them. Wheelchair-user Doug Paulley had booked assistance in […]

Disabled peer calls for ‘heavy fines’ for air travel access failures

By John Pring on 6th December 2018 Category: Transport

Disabled peer calls for ‘heavy fines’ for air travel access failures
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A disabled crossbench peer has called on the government to start handing out “heavy fines” to the air travel industry when it fails to ensure that its services are accessible to disabled passengers. Baroness [Jane] Campbell asked the government on Monday […]

Crossrail step-free promise looks set to be broken

By John Pring on 30th November 2018 Category: Transport

Crossrail step-free promise looks set to be broken
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The promise to disabled people that every station on London’s much-delayed, £15 billion Crossrail project would be step-free from the moment it opens looks increasingly likely to be broken. Four years ago, a two-year campaign by disabled and older people led […]

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