‘We’re a diverse, proud, and vibrant community, but life is outrageously unequal for disabled people.’ Scope -the leading equality disability charity has launched a new advert to try and highlight how life for disabled people is still unequal – despite 70 years of campaigning to try and get more rights for those who don’t have the same access as everyone else. Research from the charity – which campaigns to transform attitudes to disability, tackle injustice and inspire action – shows that three out of four disabled people have experienced negative attitudes or behaviour towards them in the last five years, while 87% said these impacted their daily lives.
This is something that just last month was highlighted in the national press, when Olympic gold-medal winner, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson said she was forced to ‘crawl off a train’ because there was no one there to meet her at the platform. The 11–time champion’s incident highlights that despite the feeling that life is becoming more equal for those with a disability, there are still stark daily reminders that it simply isn’t, the charity said. Alison Kerry, head of communications at Scope said Dame Tanni’s shocking incident was a ‘sad reminder’ that ‘far too often disabled people get treated like second-class citizens, and it shows ‘how much further we need to go.
’ Earlier this year the charity launched a ‘manifesto for an equal future’ calling on the new Labour government to commit to cr.
