Meet Blackpool's Disability Champion

07/10/2024 30 min
Meet Blackpool's Disability Champion

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Send us a textIn this episode, Host Gillian Oliver and Emma Jackson from the Poverty Truth  headed down to Blackpool Zoo to hold our second Disability Forum.In the meeting we heard from Rebecca Reynolds, from Blackpool Zoo who told us about their new accessibility areas and what their doing to improveAbigail Lee from Healthwatch Blackpool on looking for volunteers to help them improve services for disabled people in BlackpoolLynsey Barlow from disability first interviewed Cllr Alistair Humphreys the disability champion to understand what his new role includes and what he is proposing to do to help make Blackpool more accessible