Doug Paulley

Transport

September 13, 2018 0

Train companies could face court over inaccessible rail replacement buses

Train companies are facing possible legal action over their failure to ensure that replacement bus services are accessible to wheelchair-users and other rail passengers with mobility impairments. A leading disabled campaigner believes that access and equality laws mean most rail replacement buses – used when companies scrap train services because of engineering works or

Transport

September 6, 2018 0

Campaigners raise thousands in days for #TransportJustice legal fund

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A new campaign that will fund legal actions on behalf of disabled people who have faced discrimination on public transport has raised thousands of pounds in just a week. The #TransportJustice campaign has secured the backing of leading disabled activists and lawyers and is supported by Inclusion London and law firm Deighton Pierce Glynn.

Housing

A beautiful manor house set back behind a low stone wall

August 16, 2018 0

Deaths and hospital admissions follow short-notice closure of Leonard Cheshire home

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At least two disabled people have died while others have been admitted to hospital following the short-notice closure of a residential home by a disability charity. Leonard Cheshire faced allegations of “insensitive and abusive” behaviour in May over the way its executives told disabled residents that they were about to close their care home

Transport

Sara Harvey in a pink dress on her scooter on a train platform

August 9, 2018 0

Train company faces calls to rip up scooter policy after latest ‘shameful’ episode

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A rail company is facing calls to change its “reprehensible and unsupportable” attitude to disabled passengers, after one of its guards threatened to throw a woman off a train because she was using a mobility scooter. Sara Harvey was on the way to a wedding with her husband Liam and had boarded a Northern

Independent Living

August 2, 2018 0

Sale of 17 Leonard Cheshire homes ‘makes mockery of user-involvement pledge’

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The disability charity Leonard Cheshire has been accused of making “a complete mockery” of its supposed commitment to service-user involvement after it suddenly told residents of 17 of its care homes that it plans to sell them to other care providers. The plan will see about one-sixth of its 104 residential services being sold

Transport

July 12, 2018 0

Trio of coach companies agree wheelchair rule changes after legal warnings

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Three national coach companies have agreed to change their rules so they no longer prevent wheelchair-users enjoying a “turn-up-and-go” service, thanks to a disabled campaigner. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has even threatened to refer National Express, Megabus, Scottish Citylink and other providers to the Traffic Commissioner, who could remove their licences

Transport

June 14, 2018 0

TransPennine performs sharp U-turn on train access after protest threat

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A train operator that planned to run mainline rail services that wheelchair-users would not have been able to access has been forced to abandon its plans after it faced threats of a protest by disabled activists. Disability News Service revealed last month that TransPennine Express (TPE) was planning to introduce two extra trains, each with four

Transport

May 31, 2018 0

Rail company to run services with no wheelchair spaces… on government’s orders

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A train operator will this summer start running mainline rail services that wheelchair-users will not be able to access… with the apparent blessing of the government. It is believed to be the first time for many years that a scheduled mainline train service will run without any provision for passengers who use wheelchairs. And

Independent Living

May 10, 2018 0

Charity faces claims of ‘abusive’ behaviour over care home closure meeting

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A disability charity is facing allegations of “insensitive and abusive” behaviour over the way its executives told disabled residents that they were about to close their care home because they could not afford to keep it open. The news was broken on the same day that other executives from the same charity, Leonard Cheshire,

Transport

May 10, 2018 0

A year on from new taxi discrimination laws… and not a single prosecution

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Local authorities have failed to prosecute a single taxi-driver for discriminating against wheelchair-users under new legislation introduced more than a year ago, according to new figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. The figures show that not one taxi-driver out of more than 30,000 so far covered by the new legislation has appeared

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