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Disabled woman pays hundreds in fines, after council refuses reasonable adjustments

By John Pring on 26th May 2022 Category: Transport

Disabled woman pays hundreds in fines, after council refuses reasonable adjustments
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A disabled artist is being forced to pay hundreds of pounds in clean air zone fines every month because of her council’s refusal to make reasonable adjustments for her fluctuating health conditions. Shiva Page fears she will have to give up […]

Expansion of air pollution scheme ‘could have drastic impact on disabled people’

By John Pring on 23rd September 2021 Category: Transport

Expansion of air pollution scheme ‘could have drastic impact on disabled people’
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The mayor of London’s plans for a huge expansion of the capital’s low emission zone for cars could have a drastic and discriminatory impact on disabled people, say campaigners. They fear that the current, limited exemptions for disabled people will leave […]

Blue badge rules in London need ‘critical changes’, say campaigners

By John Pring on 29th October 2020 Category: Transport

Blue badge rules in London need ‘critical changes’, say campaigners
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Campaigners are calling for “critical” changes to rules that make it harder for disabled people to use their blue parking badges in four central London local authorities, particularly when they are attending urgent hospital appointments. They say the COVID-19 pandemic has […]

Douglas Campbell: Tributes to ‘mobility champion with a kind heart’

By John Pring on 2nd January 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Douglas Campbell: Tributes to ‘mobility champion with a kind heart’
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Tributes have been paid to Douglas Campbell, who spent more than half a century campaigning for “proper independent mobility” for disabled people, and who died in the early hours of Boxing Day. In addition to his campaigning work, he spent more […]

Hancock confronted over hospital parking charges for disabled patients

By John Pring on 18th July 2019 Category: Transport

Hancock confronted over hospital parking charges for disabled patients
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The health secretary has been confronted by a campaigner after government figures revealed the number of hospitals charging disabled people to use their carparks rose by 12 per cent in just a year. Kush Kanodia, a disabled ambassador for Disability Rights […]

Disabled activist calls for evidence of blue badge delays

By John Pring on 15th November 2018 Category: Independent Living

Disabled activist calls for evidence of blue badge delays
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An activist whose local authority warns disabled people that it could take up to 12 weeks to renew their blue parking badges is calling for disabled people in other parts of the country to pass on their experiences of problems and […]

Charities help government with cover-up over blue badge changes

By John Pring on 2nd August 2018 Category: Independent Living

Charities help government with cover-up over blue badge changes
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Disability charities have helped the government cover up the reason it was forced to announce changes to rules that prevented thousands of disabled people with invisible impairments secure blue parking badges. The Department for Transport (DfT) won widespread praise this week […]

Disabled MP seeks new laws to outlaw ‘rip-off’ hospital parking charges

By John Pring on 16th November 2017 Category: Politics

Disabled MP seeks new laws to outlaw ‘rip-off’ hospital parking charges
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A disabled MP has introduced new legislation that would ban all NHS hospitals from “rip-off” parking charges imposed on patients, staff and visitors. The Conservative MP Robert Halfon, a former minister and now chair of the Commons education select committee, said […]

Government agrees to review ‘discriminatory’ blue badge guidance

By John Pring on 20th October 2016 Category: Independent Living

Government agrees to review ‘discriminatory’ blue badge guidance
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The government has agreed to review “discriminatory” guidance that has made it almost impossible for many disabled people whose mobility is affected by mental health conditions or autism to secure a blue parking badge. The pledge follows a legal challenge from […]

‘Discriminatory’ PIP guidance means thousands could lose blue badges

By John Pring on 2nd June 2016 Category: Transport

‘Discriminatory’ PIP guidance means thousands could lose blue badges
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Disabled people whose mobility is affected by mental health conditions or autism are having their blue parking badges snatched away by local councils in England as a result of the introduction of the government’s new disability benefit. Government guidance issued after […]

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