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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]