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Call for New Law on Accessibility with Equality Act

Please consider participating in the request, and please circulate through your networks – Colleagues in the School of Law are working with Disability Rights UK to argue for a new law on accessibility to sit alongside the current Equality Act 2010. They are requesting people to take part in a survey to collect knowledge to inform the concept and application of a proposed Accessibility Act.

To read the proposal and access the survey, please visit

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