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The equality watchdog has asked every Premier League football club to explain how they are complying with their legal duties to provide reasonable adjustments for disabled supporters under the Equality Act. Rebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights […]
One of the country’s 20 top football clubs has admitted that it will breach a promise made by the Premier League that all of its stadiums would meet strict access standards by August 2017. When the Premier League, the governing body […]
Football’s Premier League has been branded dishonest by the equality watchdog’s disability commissioner, over its attitude to access and inclusion. Lord [Chris] Holmes told MPs that there had not been “anything like an inclusive culture” in the Premier League and in […]
Football’s Premier League will break a pledge that all of its stadiums would be accessible to disabled football fans by next August, despite its clubs spending more than a billion pounds on player transfers this summer. The Premier League, the governing […]
The Premier League has refused to say whether its clubs will be allowed to break a public pledge to reach basic access standards for disabled fans by August 2017. The promise was made by the Premier League last August, and was […]
At least eight Premier League football clubs are set to break their promises to meet decent standards on access for disabled supporters in time for next August’s deadline, MPs have been told. Joyce Cook, chair of the user-led charity Level Playing […]
Football’s Premier League clubs have agreed to transform access at their grounds, following a 14-year campaign by disabled supporters. The Premier League announced this week that every one of its 20 clubs would have to meet standards laid out in guidance […]
Most Premier League football clubs have inaccessible websites and fail to provide audio-described commentary for blind and partially-sighted supporters, according to a new survey by a user-led charity. The survey of the 20 Premier League clubs found only four of them […]
Four of the best-known business brands in Britain have refused to criticise the Premier League for its “glacial” slowness in improving access to football grounds, despite concerns raised by a disabled peer. Lord [Chris] Holmes, a Conservative peer and retired Paralympian, […]
A disabled peer is to write to broadcasters and sponsors of football’s Premier League to suggest they should withdraw their support if clubs do not do more to improve access for disabled fans. Lord [Chris] Holmes, a retired Paralympian and now […]