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Hooray- light dawning that council officers cannot improve health stats by themselves. It need not cost money and can save councils £££! @MerronSimpson @TheHCAlliance
The plan is to head off health problems before they begin - or at least prevent them from getting worse. But there's a warning it will take a whole-society effort to realise the vision. lep.co.uk/health/unsustainab…
Podcast out today >>> Blackpool Disability Forum presents its own resident’s review of disabled parking buzzsprout.com/1951991/episo… @CllrMelClose @GinaMillson
Thanks if you added your voice to yesterday’s Disability Forum at Holy Trinity South Shore. Podcast on the way @GedMills @CllrMelClose @TracyCtroy
Thanks if you added your voice to yesterday’s Disability Forum at Holy Trinity South Shore. Podcast on the way @GedMills @CllrMelClose @TracyCtroy
This issue ‘the most urgent and humbling in the constituency’ says local MP, podcast buzzsprout.com/1951991/episo… @GinaMillson
Young children taking knives to school, BBC finds bbc.in/48n5wXs
Today: disabled parking spaces ++ volunteer hospital transport ++ Disability Pride 2026 ++ hotpot for all #Blackpool
Latest report from Blackpool Disability Forum features @CllrMelClose asking what we all want to know: can blue badge drivers really park anywhere in town for free? buzzsprout.com/1951991/episo…
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This afternoon we’ve been with friends and colleagues in Blackpool for the Disability Forum - discussing Blue Badge spaces, hospital transport & buses - and there was Ice cream !! Of course there was it’s the seaside !! 🍦 @povertytruthnet @DisabilityFirst
ALT Women stood in front of ice cream van with ice cream in hand
ALT Picture of ice cream cone
Listen: How do Blackpool’s disabled residents feel about the benefits debate? #welfarereform @CllrMelClose podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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This is a country that can't build a new high speed railway line. Who on earth thinks we can safely provide an assisted suicide service?
Tomorrow: #DisabilityForum is meeting is at big central Sainsbury’s .. if you are concerned about cuts to disability benefits, we have expert advice on hand. Featuring @ChrisWebbMP comments on @ChoppersPodcast
“It’s expensive keeping people poor. The vast NHS bill is exaggerated by the large amount of patients suffering from food poverty. Poverty destroys government budgets, undermining their effectiveness.” @johnbirdswords bigissue.com/news/politics/s…
“Council tax debt collection is a nightmare system… vicious… aggressive… lives are destroyed…constituents treated worse than customers”. @martinslewis is pushing for change. Listen 1.39 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002d1…
Here’s Belle, the only driver in her household. When she and husband Phil complained about disabled transport in #Blackpool, she set off a research project that took 18 months to complete. buzzsprout.com/1951991/episo… @CllrMelClose
Research by @TransportCttee and @HealthwatchBpl confirms it: Disabled Transport isn’t working. New podcast buzzsprout.com/1951991/episo… @CllrMelClose
"Listening is ... acting". MP reports from our latest event with Shamir, Elise and the teens who've been bulllied at school in Blackpool. @ChrisWebbMP chriswebb.org/news/make-sure…
“We are hearing from people who wouldn’t be able to afford to travel to vital doctors’ and hospital appointments.” @BigIssue bigissue.com/news/social-jus…
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Too often, people with accessibility needs are being let down, and this needs to change.
There needs to be an overhaul of UK transport’s regulatory system to ensure disabled people are protected from discrimination and can travel where and when they need to.
Read our report 👇