SHOUTING "ABLEISM"
- By Brian Leveson
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- 20 Nov, 2022
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Its time for the government to take action against ableism, particularly around transport and cycling
Authorities need to use their public sector equality duty
to address ableism and address the issue of harassment on social media of people with protected characteristics.
I do not have to justify mine or anyone else's accessibility needs to anyone... Some people do NEED motorised transport. To deny people their access needs is ableism.
I do not have to justify mine or anyone else's accessibility needs to anyone... Some people do NEED motorised transport. To deny people their access needs is ableism.
FORCING a view on the needs of others about their needs is ableism
Lovely Mik Scarlet... I dont know how he maintains his civility sometimes
With great patience, more than many could muster, advocate and journalist Mik Scarlet explained that whilst a wheelchair bike might work for some, the post was a challenge to people to justify the use of motorised vehicles rather than a question about inclusive design.
The vile ableism continued...
When we first got the diagnosis of severe cerebral palsy we googled everything and everyone to ensure that our family had the best life possible. This included being active and getting out and about. In 2011 Mrs Leveson and a group of gym goers rowed 20km to raise nearly £3,000 for a bike for our child. It worked for a bit, but his tolerance because of muscular skeletal issues got less and less over the years.
More recently, as his hips and spine have deteriorated, we very occasionally pop up to pedal Power in Finsbury Park, maybe once or twice a year, to use a bike very similar to the one shown. But is it not a mode of transport. Maybe if the next tweeter had spent a fraction of a second googling my post from last year he would know that...
https://www.difficultparent.com/pedalpower-the-inclusive-cycle-club-in-north-london
More recently, as his hips and spine have deteriorated, we very occasionally pop up to pedal Power in Finsbury Park, maybe once or twice a year, to use a bike very similar to the one shown. But is it not a mode of transport. Maybe if the next tweeter had spent a fraction of a second googling my post from last year he would know that...
https://www.difficultparent.com/pedalpower-the-inclusive-cycle-club-in-north-london
More and more of us defended the access needs of people - but why should we have to? We do this because the government isn't.
Something needs to be done about this. People are being designed out of the transport system by vocal and hostile pro-cycling advocates.
We should not have to spend our free time defending the access needs of people.
Central government, Transport for London and local authorities need to get their acts together on this. Talk to groups about why this is ableism and act as required by their Public Sector Equality Duty
We should not have to spend our free time defending the access needs of people.
Central government, Transport for London and local authorities need to get their acts together on this. Talk to groups about why this is ableism and act as required by their Public Sector Equality Duty
- Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct prohibited by the Act.
- Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.
- Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.
If you thought SEND was bad - the NHS is seemingly prepared to throw away money to private companies
About 3 or 4 times a year we get the euphemistic message 'Parents please note we have put a letter in your child's bag' - its a world away from how a child's death was handled in my child's first school
More of a trial by ordeal than a well organised clearly set out administrative process for moving the care of vulnerable young adults from Haringey's Children's Services to Adult Services. We have been failed at every stage of the process.
Never EVER get on the bus without a camera running if you need the priority wheelchair space
The reality of using a London Bus in the teeming rain on a Sunday afternoon is no joke when the parents of a paraplegic person in a wheelchair clash with the self-entitled buggy-pushing parents of toddlers.
At 3pm today I received some barefaced lies from Haringey Council Adult Social Care in response to a photograph I published online yesterday and the media interest it generated
Haringey SEND Transport are insisting that a 17 year old minibus with no air conditioning is a suitable vehicle to transport my paraplegic son in this heatwave. The appalling conditions inside the minibus inside the bus is something they knew about last summer, yet they have to date done nothing whatsoever provide a suitable minibus this year nor appropriately mitigate the temperatures inside the minibus.The conditions inside the minibus are so bad that they triggered multiple seizures during the heatwave as my son has epilepsy, which they SEND transport department know about and they also know that they are triggered by heat.It is not just son who is impacted: last year we know of one child who died on Haringey SEND Transport in the summer heatwave and another who had seizures.
I am simply asking a question - are we all absolutely certain that the road closure / travel restrictions (commonly know as LTNs) placed on some of the most severely disabled people who are wholly reliant on cars are absolutely necessary
Haringey's road closures exemptions policy for disabled people is not fit for purpose, unduly burdensome and intrusive - it's time to stand up against the pro-LTN lycra-clad cycling bullies
Is the argument for and against exemptions for disabled people in Low Traffic Neighbourhoods really a case of GOOD versus EVIL?
