Inaccessible Stadium Design
Stadium designs failing to adequately accommodate women and disabled fans, undermining their safety, security, dignity, and access.
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Committee recommendation
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#23 - Update SGSA Green Guide to require better accessibility and inclusion in stadium design.
The Sports Ground Safety Authority, as the safety regulator of sports grounds in the UK, must do more promote the widening of accessibility and inclusion in stadium design. The SGSA’s current Green Guide, does not fairly promote accessibility and inclusion for all sports fans and the fundamental changes required should not be delayed until the next scheduled update...
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Committee recommendation
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#22 - Poor stadium design fails to adequately accommodate women and disabled fans.
Poor stadium design raises fundamental issues around equality, diversity and inclusion that are not being fulfilled to an acceptable level by the design of spaces intended for use by fans. Being unable to accommodate women and disabled fans in an appropriate way sends the message that they are not welcome and undermines their safety, security and dignity when...
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Committee recommendation
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#25 - Disabled people face persistent barriers to bus use due to inaccessible information and infrastructure.
Disabled people face persistent barriers to bus use, including lack of accessible travel information at bus stops and on-board, inaccessible ticketing systems and bus doors, as set out in evidence submitted by Transformative Transport Service Design Initiative.59 Further evidence from Later Life Ambitions explains how cuts to bus services have contributed to older people losing their independence.60 We...
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Committee recommendation
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#28 - Many public charge points remain inaccessible for disabled drivers despite new accessibility standards
By 2035, 1.35 million drivers with disabilities are expected to be partially or wholly dependent on public charge points, but many charge points, or their surrounding environment, have features which make them inaccessible. These include features such as charge points being placed on kerbs or with obstructions which present difficulties for wheelchair users, and the weight of the...
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PFD report
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Dennis Lavington
The health centre car park design creates a pedestrian safety hazard, particularly for disabled patients, due to the lack of dedicated crossings or marked safe paths from parking to the entrance.
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Committee recommendation
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#20 - Establish a unified service with disabled people to receive and triage transport accessibility complaints.
We recommend that the Department for Transport work with disabled people’s organisations to design a unified service to receive and triage accessibility complaints or reports of failures, ensure that they reach the relevant operator, authority or regulator, and follow them up if not resolved. Such a service would require an investment in knowledgeable and resourceful staff and in...
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Committee recommendation
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#26 - Department acknowledges poorer bus experience for disabled people, with accessibility measures underway.
The Department acknowledged that disabled people have a poorer experience on buses and that it needs to do more. It told us about its various measures to help improve accessibility, such as supporting operators to implement improvements to audible and visible route and destination announcements.62 We raised the issue of conflicting requirements for pavement space from different user...
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PFD report
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David Wellington
The service road used by both vehicles and pedestrians lacked a designated pathway for pedestrians, road markings designating a pedestrian route, and any clear separation of pedestrian routes; a number of obstructions were present in the service road, presenting a risk to pedestrians and emergency services.
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Committee recommendation
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#5 - Set out actions to improve charge point accessibility and align international standards
The interests of drivers with disabilities have been left behind in the rollout of public charge points. By 2035, 1.35 million drivers with disabilities are expected to be partially or wholly dependent on public charge points, but many charge points, or their surrounding environment, have features which make them inaccessible. The Department co–sponsored the creation of a standard...
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Committee recommendation
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#29 - Review roles of transport accessibility enforcement bodies and legislate for consistent, sufficient powers.
The Department should within 12 months review the roles of enforcement bodies with responsibilities for transport accessibility and prepare to legislate where necessary: • to ensure that all have consistent and sufficient powers at their disposal, and have both the powers and resources needed to intervene formally at lower thresholds than is currently the case; • to assess...
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Committee recommendation
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#26 - Informal enforcement methods by regulators prove insufficient for addressing systemic accessibility failures.
The confidence that regulators evince in informal methods of enforcement and its deterrent effect on other operators is not justified by the experience of travellers. We recognise that reputational incentives such as performance rankings have a part to play, as do informal collaboration and education, but failure to adhere to legal requirements demands more robust and immediate responses....
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Committee recommendation
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#25 - Require evidence of e-scooter schemes managing negative impacts on disabled people's street access.
The case of e-scooters demonstrates the importance of ensuring that enforcement is not an afterthought when new elements are introduced into transport networks. Should the Government eventually seek to legislate for permanent e-scooter rental schemes or use of privately-owned e-scooters on public roads, it must not rely on saying that it is up to local authorities or police...
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Committee recommendation
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#24 - Lead a review of transport accessibility legislation, collaborating with disabled people, to update and clarify standards.
The Department for Transport should lead a review of transport accessibility legislation in collaboration with the Office for Equality and Opportunity, and with meaningful involvement and leadership by disabled people, to assess how it could be streamlined, clarified and updated, and whether it should be underpinned by greater specification of the standards providers must work to. Specification of...
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Committee recommendation
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#22 - Mandate all licensed transport providers to appoint accessible transport champions for passenger experience assessment.
As one way of reducing the need for complaints in the first place, we recommend that all licensed transport providers be required to appoint an accessible transport champion with the specific responsibility for navigating journeys on a regular basis to assess conditions against a checklist, as a lean and rapid way of assessing the passenger experience. Champions should...
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Committee recommendation
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#19 - Disabled people face an unreasonable burden when pursuing transport accessibility complaints.
An unreasonable burden is currently placed on disabled people themselves in holding transport operators and authorities to account for fulfilling their duties. Legal action is rarely a practical option for most individuals, so it is especially important that complaints processes are made more accessible and effective. The user should not have to be an expert either in the...
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Committee recommendation
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#18 - Government’s rail reform consultation document shows weak focus on transport accessibility for disabled people.
We welcome the focus in the Government’s rail reform consultation paper on streamlining, consolidating and strengthening powers for protecting passenger interests, resolving complaints and monitoring rights and standards. However, the focus on accessibility in the consultation document appears relatively weak in comparison to the severity of the problem. It will be necessary for the passenger watchdog to have...
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Committee recommendation
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#17 - Mandate Great British Railways to prioritise accessibility in future staffing level and location decisions.
The presence of staff is often a crucial determinant of the ability of disabled people to travel. Ahead of the establishment of Great British Railways and nationalisation of operating companies, the Department must be prepared to intervene where necessary to ensure that changes to staffing levels on the rail network do not have the effect of reducing access...
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#16 - Establish an expert unit to review, benchmark, and standardise transport accessibility training packages.
It is not sufficient for training to be delivered on disability awareness, accessibility and preventing discrimination: the training must be of a guaranteed minimum standard and proven to be effective in improving outcomes. The Department for Transport should, with the active 76 participation of disabled people, establish an expert unit to review within 12 months the training packages...
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Committee recommendation
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#15 - Transport systems and staffing lack sufficient resilience for complex accessibility requirements.
Operators are at pains to emphasise the complexity of the systems they work within, especially when it comes to journeys involving multiple organisations or modes. But people are entitled to expect to be able to make complicated journeys to get where they need to go; disabled people are no different. Systems and staffing must be able to cope...
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Committee recommendation
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#8 - Routine rail assistance failures are unacceptable and must become vanishingly rare occurrences.
The seemingly routine, everyday nature of assistance failures on the rail network is unacceptable. Accessibility must not be viewed through the same lens as customer service, where less than 100 per cent performance is considered normal. Accessibility failures should be vanishingly rare, not commonplace, but too few actors in the system currently behave as if that is the...
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Committee recommendation
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#2 - Inclusive Transport Strategy's 2030 equal access goal will not be met on current trajectory.
The 2018 Inclusive Transport Strategy set a goal of “creating a transport system offering equal access for disabled people by 2030”. Regardless of the status of individual actions set out in that Strategy, it is evident that the overall goal will not be achieved on that timescale. A positive direction of travel is not enough—and, indeed, we have...
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Committee recommendation
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#6 - Seventh Report - Covid-19 and the issues of security in food supply
It is imperative that food retailers ensure that their stores are accessible to disabled people. We recognise the challenges faced in adapting stores to social distancing in the early months of the pandemic, but there is no excuse for ongoing barriers. All food retailers must ensure that reasonable adjustments are made to ensure that disabled people are not...
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Committee recommendation
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#31 - Public charge point network failing to meet disabled drivers' needs without standard.
Many disabled people are reliant on their cars as existing public transport does not adequately cater for their needs.58 Failure to address problems with the uptake of the standard will mean that the public charge point network will continue to develop without meeting the needs of drivers with disabilities.59 55 Qq 79, 87; C&AG’s Report para 3.13 56...
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Committee recommendation
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#11 - Change processes to build accessibility into departmental decision-making and internal checks.
The Department must set out in response to this report how it will change its processes in order to build accessibility into decision-making processes both internally and at agencies overseen by the Department, and how it will ensure that internal checks and balances for accessibility are effective. Relying on consultations to highlight problems after policies and interventions have...
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IMB recommendation
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North Sea Camp (2021)
There are some areas of the prison inaccessible to prisoners with physical disabilities, especially those who use wheelchairs (see paragraphs 5.4.2 and 6.2.8). Although improvements have been made, budget needs to be allocated so that all areas are accessible to those who use wheelchairs, especially bariatric wheelchairs. This issue is also of concern to the Governor, but more...
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IMB recommendation
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North Sea Camp (2022)
There are some areas of the prison inaccessible to prisoners with physical disabilities, especially those who use wheelchairs. Although improvements have been made, budget needs to be allocated so that all areas are accessible to those who use wheelchairs, especially bariatric wheelchairs.
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Committee recommendation
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#9 - Fifth report - Equality in the heart of democracy: A gender sensitive House of Commons
Provision of dedicated car parking bays for MPs with young children would be a simple way of making the House of Commons more family-friendly and a small step towards reducing the burden on MPs who are also the primary carers of their children. It is a straightforward measure that you would expect to see at any car park...
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PFD report
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Dennis Stark
A rehabilitation unit's lack of a lift significantly delayed the emergency removal of an obese patient from a second-floor room, posing a risk of future deaths for individuals requiring urgent medical attention.
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Committee recommendation
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#28 - Mandate regulators with resources to proactively enforce accessibility laws and publish breach data.
The Secretary of State should immediately give regulators an explicit mandate, backed by the necessary resources, to be far more proactive within the scope of their current powers in identifying and enforcing against breaches of accessibility law and regulations by operators. The Department 79 should set annual reporting requirements for regulators to publish updates on the number of...
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Committee recommendation
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#27 - Effective enforcement routes for street environment accessibility are absent and insufficient.
There appears to be no effective or easily available enforcement route for accessibility in the street environment in particular. There is instead a reliance on upstream measures such as local authorities following good practice, consulting effectively and having “due regard” under the Public Sector Equality Duty, but these appear insufficient to ensure good outcomes for accessibility. (Conclusion, Paragraph...
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#23 - Transport accessibility legislative and regulatory framework is overly complicated and fragmented.
The landscape of legislative and regulatory requirements for transport accessible is overly complicated and fragmented and needs to adapt to changing uses of transport. This prevents both operators and travellers readily understanding rights and obligations, and makes redress harder to access. (Conclusion, Paragraph 123)
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Committee recommendation
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#14 - Embed accessibility as a core goal for Great British Railways in forthcoming legislation.
The establishment of Great British Railways presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix accessibility as a core goal and responsibility of the railway and as a guiding principle for its decision-making. The opportunity must not be squandered, and we urge the Government in bringing forward its legislation to consider the full range of mechanisms that could be used to...
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Committee recommendation
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#9 - Embed accountability for accessibility failures and collect comprehensive data on occurrences.
The Government’s new strategy for inclusive transport should set out what practical measures it will take to embed the principle that every instance of not meeting accessibility obligations constitutes a serious failure for which operators and service providers will be held accountable. This must include measures to collect comprehensive data on such failures. (Recommendation, Paragraph 67) 75
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Committee recommendation
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#7 - Publish full station accessibility audit information and an open data register of key assets.
Station accessibility audit information must be published in full within two months of this report to permit independent scrutiny of progress, the resources required and any decisions made to rule out works at particular locations. In its Inclusive Transport Strategy, the Department should commit to compiling and publishing in open data format a register of key accessibility assets...
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Committee recommendation
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#6 - Adopt a rolling programme of rapid interventions for station accessibility upgrades.
Progress in implementing agreed accessibility upgrades at stations has been too halting, and delivery too slow and costly. The Department for Transport and its agencies and partners should consider adopting a different commissioning approach based on a rolling programme of rapid interventions, as opposed to individual station projects commissioned separately. By creating certainty and consistency for contractors, this...
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Committee recommendation
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#5 - Commit to publishing a roadmap for achieving independent rail network accessibility within 12 months.
As part of a new Inclusive Transport Strategy, the Government must set out concrete timescales for achieving independent accessibility across the rail network, and commit to setting out within 12 months a road map for how to meet those timescales. This road map must inform the rolling stock, station and network enhancements strategies of the Department and, when...
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#4 - Establish accessibility as a non-negotiable policy goal for all government decision-making.
Decision-makers too often deem accessibility to be in conflict with, and less important than, other policy goals, technical requirements or cost pressures. The Government’s starting point must be that accessibility has to be delivered, not that it will only be delivered if other factors do not get in the way. (Conclusion, Paragraph 58)
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#3 - Publish new Inclusive Transport Strategy within 12 months with clear metrics, actions, and costed milestones.
The Government should publish within 12 months a new Inclusive Transport Strategy. This strategy must have a stretching ambition, but one underpinned by metrics, actions, costings and milestones which clearly map out a practical pathway to deliver on that ambition. It must be cross-modal and closely linked to the Government’s promised Integrated Transport Strategy, but a specific focus...
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Committee recommendation
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#3 - Accelerate improvements to rail network accessibility for all passengers, including station facilities and train services.
It is unacceptable that so much of the rail network remains so difficult to access for so many people. The Department committed to improving access to the rail 6 Rail reform: The rail transformation programme network and other modes of transport as part of its 2018 inclusive transport strategy and has been running its Access for All programme...
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Committee recommendation
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#1 - Mandate adequately funded and planned involvement of disabled people in developing transport accessibility solutions.
Aside from the structural legal issues, it is clear from the evidence that myriad specific practical issues need to be addressed, across all transport modes and relating to all kinds of disability, to improve compliance and practice on a daily basis. We will seek to hold the Department for Transport, local authorities and providers to account for addressing...
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IMB recommendation
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Glasgow, Edinburgh and Larne House Short Term Holding Facilities (2021)
That a full disability access review to ensure that there is proper access and facilities for all detainees with disabilities, be undertaken at all establishments.
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Committee recommendation
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#12 - 4th Report - Game On: Community and school sport
Access to appropriate, safe, inclusive and affordable sports facilities is closely linked to participation. Yet while demand, particularly from women and girls, is rising, facility provision is declining due to closures, ageing infrastructure and uneven availability. Smaller sports, grassroots organisations and underserved communities are disproportionately affected and increasingly squeezed out by better‑resourced users. Without sustained capital investment, improved...
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Committee recommendation
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#9 - Require landlords to include property accessibility information in the Private Rented Sector database.
The proposed new Property Portal presents a compelling opportunity to improve information about the accessibility of properties in the private rented sector. This would provide a clear benefit to disabled people. Once the Renters (Reform) Bill comes into force, the Secretary of State must use its provisions to require landlords to include information about the accessibility of their...
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#8 - Require local authorities to keep and publish accessibility registers for all social housing stock.
We are concerned that most local authorities do not keep a register of the accessibility of their own housing stock, despite some disabled people living in temporary accommodation for years while waiting for accessible social housing. The Government must require all local authorities to keep a register of accessibility of homes in their own housing stock and require...
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#5 - BSR's excessively long M4(2) consultation timeline delays implementation until spring 2025 at earliest.
The Building Safety Regulator’s (BSR) timeline to run a full technical consultation process for six months, starting on an undecided date between May and July 2024, would make it unlikely that the M4(2) baseline policy could be implemented until spring 2025, at the earliest. This is an excessively long timeline considering the sector’s demand for certainty and the...
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#4 - Delayed M4(2) technical consultation causes ongoing uncertainty for disabled people and stakeholders.
Moreover, it is unclear why the Department did not seek to launch the further ‘technical consultation’ soon after its July 2022 announcement of its M4(2) policy change. The delay to implementation continues to afflict the daily lives of thousands of disabled people who are searching for accessible new build homes, while stakeholders from across the sector remain “left...
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#3 - Little progress made implementing mandatory M4(2) accessibility standard for new build homes.
We welcome the Government’s announcement that it intends to make the M4(2) accessibility standard mandatory for all new build homes. This amendment to building regulations is an important policy change which will greatly increase the availability of accessible homes for disabled people. However, we are deeply concerned that the Department has made little progress towards implementing this policy...
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#13 - Department remains slow to deliver tangible rail accessibility improvements despite acknowledging the need.
We asked the Department about the passenger improvements it has made for disabled passengers and people who find accessibility an issue. The Department recognised that it needs to make sure the railway works for disabled passengers, and that accessibility is going to increase in importance with demographic changes. The Department told us that it will shortly be going...
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#10 - Ticket office closure proposals wasted resources and inappropriately burdened disabled rail users.
Despite all the mechanisms in place to safeguard accessibility, proposals which risked significantly damaging disabled people’s access to the rail network by closing hundreds of ticket offices were published in 2023 and only withdrawn after a huge response to public consultation. This was a waste of time and resources and it resulted in a burden being placed once...
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IMB recommendation
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Lincoln (2022)
Whilst acknowledging that the building structures do not lend themselves to easy access for prisoners who have mobility difficulties or are wheelchair bound (see paragraphs 5.4.6 and 5.4.7), are there any further plans to improve disabled access to all parts of the establishment?
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