disability

Two women hold a sign between them against a brick wall

Features

Seen Sisters: the Bristol women highlighting invisible disabilities

Facing a gruelling benefits system, stigma and insecure housing, the collective is reimagining spaces for a better future

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Opinion

A group of protesters, wearing protective masks, some standing holding banners and some sitting on the grass in front of a cathedral.

Being a Crip is a radicalising experience

Teodor Hykel

Interviews

‘Having the odd disabled model is not enough’: the Bristol woman shaking up the beauty industry

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

General Election 2024

Election hopefuls feel the heat on independent living, accessible housing and disability rights

Deaf and disabled persons hustings at Bristol Beacon marred by contentious remarks from Reform candidate, with other MP contenders sometimes uncertain of their parties’ policy positions.

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen
Image of Kevin Baker, who was left paralysed on one side in 2004, says money struggles mean he is less able to use support services, taken at Paul's Place in Coalpit Heath (credit: David Griffiths)

Features

Disabled people are struggling to access ‘lifeline’ services amid the cost-of-living crisis

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Your Bristol Life

Listen: A Bristol boy’s disabled life by Richard Prior

Richard Prior

Reports

‘Life-saving’ council service for adults with learning disabilities facing cut

A Bristol woman says Concord Lodge saved her sister's life at a time when adults with learning disabilities are being locked up in psychiatric hospitals due to a lack of alternative.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

Illustration showing disabled people being excluded from Bristol's Clean Air Zone (CAZ) (image: Sophia Checkley)

The cost of clean air: how Bristol’s CAZ has left disabled people feeling forgotten

Disabled people can be badly affected by air pollution, and many support the aims of Bristol's Clean Air Zone (CAZ). But there are questions as to whether the council has done enough to consider the knock-on effects on their lives.

James Ward
James Ward

Reports

An illustration of a taxi, avoiding a partially sighted person with a guide dog

Blind people facing ‘ongoing’ discrimination by taxi services, local organisations say

Blind and partially sighted people say they and their guide dogs are still being refused taxi services in Bristol, despite recent law changes meant to strengthen their rights.

Rowenna Hoskin

Reports

A fountain in front of City Hall in Bristol, a curved building

Calls for urgent independent inquiry into Bristol council surveillance of SEND parents

Documents leaked last week revealed council staff had been collating and sharing social media posts and personal wedding photos of parents of children with special needs.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Council scraps funding support for special needs charity amid surveillance row

The council is expected to face questions this week over the surveillance operation of parents with disabled children, but it denies that the removal of funding support for a charity involved in the row is related.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Autistic woman wins damages after police put ‘false and misleading’ information on her record

In the latest in a series of payouts from the force, Avon and Somerset Police were found to hold records incorrectly describing her as having 'split personality, violent when not medicated'.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
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