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Train company assessments provide fresh evidence of ticket office closure concerns

By John Pring on 7th September 2023 Category: Transport

Train company assessments provide fresh evidence of ticket office closure concerns
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Documents published by train companies show how their plans to close hundreds of ticket offices across England will risk the safety of disabled passengers and make it harder for them to obtain assistance and buy tickets. Information contained in equality impact […]

Watchdog warns ticket office closures could breach Equality Act and UN convention

By John Pring on 7th September 2023 Category: Transport

Watchdog warns ticket office closures could breach Equality Act and UN convention
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The equality watchdog has warned that the proposed closure of nearly 1,000 rail ticket offices across England could breach both the Equality Act and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) […]

DWP loses court case over inaccessible benefit letters… but keeps sending them

By John Pring on 3rd August 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP loses court case over inaccessible benefit letters… but keeps sending them
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is continuing to send an access consultant inaccessible letters about his disability benefits, despite the high court ruling that this was unlawful discrimination. Dr Yusuf Ali Osman, who is blind, had brought a judicial […]

Network Rail finally confesses: We’re building 17 inaccessible footbridges

By John Pring on 27th July 2023 Category: Transport

Network Rail finally confesses: We’re building 17 inaccessible footbridges
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Network Rail has been forced to admit that it has plans to build 17 inaccessible footbridges across England, Scotland and Wales. The plans have been described as “profoundly offensive” by one disabled campaigner, with another warning that the new bridges will […]

Union key workers demand urgent action on rights for those with long Covid

By John Pring on 13th July 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Union key workers demand urgent action on rights for those with long Covid
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Teachers, train drivers and other union activists have called for urgent action to secure the rights of disabled workers with long Covid. Among their demands, they are calling for statutory recognition of long Covid to ensure disabled employees are protected under […]

Guidance ‘will boost confidence’ of employers who want to recruit disabled people

By John Pring on 8th June 2023 Category: Employment

Guidance ‘will boost confidence’ of employers who want to recruit disabled people
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New guidance that stresses that employers are allowed to reserve jobs for disabled people should help narrow the disability employment gap, say the disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) that asked for the legal advice to be published. Inclusion Barnet’s chief executive, Caroline […]

Public inquiry on inaccessible footbridge will be ‘line in the sand’, say activists

By John Pring on 25th May 2023 Category: Transport

Public inquiry on inaccessible footbridge will be ‘line in the sand’, say activists
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A “hugely important” public inquiry into Network Rail’s plan to build an inaccessible footbridge will be a “line in the sand” for disabled activists who are determined to fight further such proposals. They believe Network Rail plans to build other inaccessible […]

Network Rail’s ‘discriminatory’ plans for two more inaccessible footbridges

By John Pring on 20th April 2023 Category: Transport

Network Rail’s ‘discriminatory’ plans for two more inaccessible footbridges
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Network Rail has admitted that it plans to build two completely inaccessible new footbridges, in a further apparent breach of the government’s own Inclusive Transport Strategy. In a response provided under Environmental Information Regulations (EIR), Network Rail admits there are two […]

Bus company settles legal action over wheelchair space ‘humiliation’

By John Pring on 20th April 2023 Category: Transport

Bus company settles legal action over wheelchair space ‘humiliation’
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A transport company has been forced to pay compensation to a disabled woman after its drivers repeatedly breached a legal agreement aimed at protecting the rights of wheelchair-users to use its buses. Nina Grant (pictured), from north London, was repeatedly left […]

Disability discrimination in Met police is ‘baked into the system’, says report

By John Pring on 23rd March 2023 Category: Employment

Disability discrimination in Met police is ‘baked into the system’, says report
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Discrimination faced by disabled staff within the Metropolitan police has become “baked into the system”, a review of the force’s culture and standards has found. But despite multiple findings of disability discrimination, the report by the crossbench peer Baroness [Louise] Casey […]

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