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The government has been denied permission to appeal against a court ruling that its entire disability strategy is unlawful, and not just the botched national consultation ministers carried out last year while they were preparing the document. Disability News Service (DNS) […]
A minister has agreed to offer transport providers yet another series of “ludicrous” exemptions from transport access laws, two years after the regulations were supposed to have come into force. The government has told senior figures in the rail, bus and […]
Only a tiny proportion of the views expressed by the thousands of disabled people who took part in the government’s national disability survey have been read by a minister or civil servant, a freedom of information response suggests. The new information […]
The government appears to have been forced to delay the publication of its controversial disability strategy, after four disabled people were granted permission to challenge the legality of its consultation process in the high court. Publication of the strategy was originally […]
Parts of the rail, bus and coach industries are likely to be able to continue to use inaccessible vehicles for years to come, after a “worrying” government announcement that it was planning a fresh series of exemptions from transport access laws. […]
A disabled campaigner has taken the first steps towards launching legal action over the rail industry’s use of a long-delayed and “fundamentally broken” passenger assistance mobile phone app. The industry hoped its Passenger Assist app would make it easier for disabled […]
Rail companies have delayed plans to launch a new mobile phone accessibility app, just days after they were warned that the technology appears to breach their duties under the Equality Act. The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) had been set to launch […]
A disabled campaigner is hoping to launch a legal action against government COVID rules that force residents of care homes to isolate for two weeks every time they attend a medical appointment or visit a shop. Doug Paulley has also told […]
Four disabled people have launched a legal action against the government over its “disrespectful” and “unlawful” approach to seeking their views on the proposed national disability strategy. The four claimants say that a controversial survey, carried out by the Disability Unit, […]
A government minister has allowed the transport industry its fourth temporary exemption from access laws, allowing it to continue to use inaccessible vehicles for rail replacement services for another nine months. The concession came in a letter from transport minister Chris […]