disability

Your Bristol Life

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

As part of this series of podcasts about under-represented parts of Bristol’s history, this is Richard's story of living with hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, a condition that causes degenerative muscle weakness.

Richard Prior

Reports

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

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

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

Reports

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

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

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Council scraps funding support for special needs charity amid surveillance row

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

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

Revealed: The Disabled Bristolians waiting months and years to live in accessible homes

Housing adaptations for Disabled people should offer independence – but for many it's a prolonged bureaucratic nightmare.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Bristol and the Climate Crisis

Locked out of nature: Making Bristol’s parks accessible to Disabled people

Being outdoors is vital to our wellbeing, even more so during a pandemic, but for Disabled people, getting out into nature is harder than ever.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

‘Marginalised people are worse affected by the housing crisis’: the Bristol renters facing discrimination and bias

Bristol City Council have pledged to stamp out discrimination in the private rental sector. But it’s not always clear cut.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

Police denied autistic woman access to appropriate adult after suicide attempt

A second complaint has been upheld against Avon and Somerset Police over their treatment of a woman who says she has suffered years of hate crime.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Interviews

Author of damning report into autism services criticises police response, praises council and health services

Sir Stephen Bubb speaks to the Cable about the response to his independent report, which last week exposed serious failings of people with autism and learning disabilities by multiple agencies in Bristol.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
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