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Premier League clubs ‘will break access pledge’ despite billion pound transfer spree
September 15, 2016
Ian Streets
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…
Read moreJustice project will help DPOs tackle discrimination through the courts
August 25, 2016
Ian Streets
A new user-led project will help disabled people in London use the law to fight for their independent living rights, and combat the discrimination they face from providers of goods…
Read moreCountdown to Rio: Nicholls looks for a ‘crowning’ achievement
August 18, 2016
Ian Streets
She joined Hannah Cockroft on her lap of honour after finishing seventh behind Britain’s double gold medallist in the T34 200 metres in London 2012. But four years on, Mel…
Read moreGovernment ‘could have saved £48 billion on social care’ with full funding of DFGs
August 11, 2016
Ian Streets
The government could have saved nearly £48 billion in social care costs over five years if it had funded all the work needed to make disabled people’s homes more accessible,…
Read moreAccess website’s inclusive solution after one man’s lifetime of photography
August 4, 2016
Ian Streets
A disabled campaigner has launched a new photo-based website that has put decades of his work online, in a bid to share information about the accessibility of venues across Britain…
Read moreParalympians’ exploits ‘will encourage engagement with disabled people’
July 28, 2016
Ian Streets
The disabled chair of the organisation that will manage Britain’s team at September’s Paralympic Games in Brazil has explained how it plans to use their sporting performances in Rio and…
Read moreBBC’s Gardner ‘wants normalisation’ for disabled people
July 7, 2016
Ian Streets
The BBC’s disabled security correspondent has spoken of his wish for a “normalisation of disability” in society. Frank Gardner, who was giving the third annual Jack Ashley Memorial Lecture, said…
Read moreBrexit vote: Fear and uncertainty over impact of EU exit
June 30, 2016
Ian Streets
Campaigners and experts say they fear that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) could have serious consequences for disabled people, although it is too early for an accurate…
Read moreRise in disabled train passenger numbers sparks call for ‘turn up and go’ system
June 23, 2016
Ian Streets
New government figures show that the number of disabled people travelling by train has increased sharply in the last year. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) statistics show that…
Read more‘Alarming’ court decision on traffic lights ‘puts blind shoppers at risk’
June 16, 2016
Ian Streets
By Raya Al Jadir A Paralympic goalball star has lost his legal case against a council that switched off the traffic lights in a busy shopping area – in order…
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