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City’s co-produced climate action plan ‘is a world first’

By John Pring on 14th July 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

City’s co-produced climate action plan ‘is a world first’
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Disabled people have called for action to open up their access to green jobs, public transport, affordable food and clean energy across their city, as part of a pioneering, user-led climate action plan. The plan also calls for blue badge holders […]

Activists ‘horrified’ by Bristol’s third damning report into multi-agency failings in four years

By John Pring on 17th June 2021 Category: Human Rights

Activists ‘horrified’ by Bristol’s third damning report into multi-agency failings in four years
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Council, police and other agencies across Bristol have again been found to have repeatedly failed disabled people, in the third such damning report to hit the city in just four years. This week’s report by Sir Stephen Bubb examined multi-agency failings […]

Tomlinson faces third angry letter from DPOs over ‘shambolic’ national disability survey

By John Pring on 18th February 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Tomlinson faces third angry letter from DPOs over ‘shambolic’ national disability survey
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Nearly 100 disability organisations and allies have called on the government to scrap its rushed, inaccessible, over-long and poorly-planned national survey of disabled people. It is the third letter sent to ministers by disabled-led organisations in the last month to raise […]

Councils face calls to re-think COVID streetscape changes

By TJM on 1st October 2020 Category: Transport

Councils face calls to re-think COVID streetscape changes
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By TJM Local authorities in England and Wales are facing calls to re-think the “streetscape” changes being made in response to COVID-19, amid concerns that the new street infrastructure is making parts of towns and cities inaccessible to many disabled people. […]

Coronavirus: ‘Scandalous’ silence of government’s Disability Unit as thousands die

By John Pring on 16th July 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Coronavirus: ‘Scandalous’ silence of government’s Disability Unit as thousands die
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The government has been accused of a “totally reprehensible failure” after its new Disability Unit failed to make a single announcement in more than three months, while more than 20,000 disabled people were dying from COVID-19. The unit was set up […]

Lottery funding will help young disabled people dig into city’s activist past

By John Pring on 28th November 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Lottery funding will help young disabled people dig into city’s activist past
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A new lottery award is set to help young disabled people research and record the history of the disabled people’s movement in one of England’s biggest cities. The Forging Our Future project will see younger disabled people – aged between 16 […]

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