A lot of people have been in touch with us this week about an email they have received from the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). Thank you to everyone who contacted us and alerted us to this. The Email Your consent to remain on Autism/ADHD waiting list We are emailing you as …
NHS England published their national framework and operational guidance for autism assessment services on 5th April 2023. David McAsey has been in touch to share his initial thoughts on the guidance as it is highly relevant to the current pilot restricting autism and ADHD diagnoses in York and North Yorkshire. These are my personal initial …
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York Accessibility Action have an update to share with our members about the legal challenge to the Blue Badge Ban: “It has been some time since we updated supporters about our possible legal challenge to York City Council over their decision to extend the pedestrian area of York City Centre and exclude Blue Badge holders …
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York Disability Rights Forum is not linked with any political party. We wanted to ensure that you, our lovely readers and members, know what the different parties think about the city centre access issue… So, in alphabetical order… Conservative “The Conservative Group would absolutely be prepared to reverse what we believe to be totally discriminatory …
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We have a few events coming up locally that we wanted to let you know about. To be kept up to date, you can also sign up to our newsletter or follow us on social media. Disability and Queerness in History As part of LGBT History Month, join us to have a look at how …
If you’ve been paying attention to local news, you’ll know that Reverse the Ban (a coalition of charities, associations, action groups and other organisations who aim to reverse the ban on blue badge holders’ access to York’s pedestrian streets) have been busy. There was a peaceful protest at a full Council meeting on 20th October …
Thanks York Accessibility Action for this important post about why disabled people may need their vehicle, and how taking away parking is disabling us. Please note, you can download a longer version of this post. This post will offer a condensed version. In recent years we have seen an increasing number of local authorities explicitly …
On 13th January, Executive (made up of some councillors from York Greens and York Lib Dems) were asked to consider the location of barriers around the footstreets, to approve a increased budget to implement the scheme and to start the process of finding a company to put the barriers in place. York Disability Rights Forum …
City of York Council Executive Meeting – 13th January Read More »
York Accessibility Action tell us who they are and what they’ve been up to: “In the summer of 2020, City of York Council closed various streets that Blue Badge holders were previously permitted to access, including Goodramgate and the streets after it to through traffic (apart from a range of ‘permitted’ vehicles) along with removing …
AccessAble helps disabled people to find accessible venues and are here to tell us a bit about their work with City of York Council. In November 2020, when City of York Council renewed their partnership with AccessAble, they committed to funding Access Guides for community venues moving forward. The idea being that local businesses would …
