DEMOCRACY DISABILITY and SOCIETY GROUP

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The DDS Group promotes a fully inclusive and understanding community and aims to raise awareness and challenge the barriers that make it difficult for disabled people to be fully included in society

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LATEST NEWS

A Taxi For The Future - July 2004

The disability democracy & society group have recently tried out the new E7 Taxi read our report.

Taxi Driver Training Website - 7th July 2003

We are launching a web site that we have created, it involves training for taxi drivers on disability equality and how best to support disabled people using taxis.

3 March 2003: We had a demonstration of low-floor accessible buses provided by Lothian Buses, giving our members and other disabled people the opportunity to try them out and offer comments on them.


RESOURCES

We're busy working on our taxi drivers' training pack, which will be available online in July.

 

AWARENESS

Our transport event of November 2001 raised a number of issues transport providers need to be aware of; have a look at our report.

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The Group is supported by

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The Thistle Foundation

 




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