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Lifting the barriers

Do councils and those who lead them focus as keenly on the impact of the inaccessibility baked-in to our society on their employees as they do on their residents, asks Patrick McDermott

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This week a tempting offer landed in my inbox – a last-minute ticket to join colleagues at the Local Government Association (LGA) conference in Harrogate, later this month.

Making travel work for me takes some extra consideration. As a wheelchair user, I am thinking about the availability of accessible hotel rooms, ruling out no-go Airbnb options, considering if the favourite coffee haunts have rogue steps and worrying about the navigation of those very steep hills where I came a cropper in front of some very new, and very senior, colleagues back in 2015!

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