Workstream Leads Update

Workstream Leads Update

Planning and Strategy

David Hunter and Linda Bamford

A smiling woman with her thumb up next to a vertical list of green ticks.

This year's good work includes:

  • Giving information to Scottish Government plans that affect disabled people including:
  • Delivery Plans for the National Transport Strategy 2
  • the capital investment plan
  • a draft National Planning Framework
  • the plan to have 20 percent fewer private car miles by 2030
A group of disabled people looking empowered and pointing upwards at a poster showing a team of 6 people all crowded around the same plan on a table, pointing together at the centre.

We want to make sure that:

  • disabled people are involved in these plans
  • everyone understands how the plan affects disabled people
2 older women standing in front of a double decker bus.

Closing the mobility gap between how disabled and non-disabled people travel.

Disabled people travel less often and make shorter journeys - often because there are not enough services and they are not accessible.

3 people looking at a graph on a table.

MACS want better information about how and when disabled people travel.

In July 2021 Transport Scotland published a report about disability and transport.

Click to find out more about the 'Disability and Transport' report.

The blue and pink Social Security Scotland logo.

We have worked closely with Social Security Scotland on the Accessible Vehicle and Equipment Scheme (AVES).

The Blue and white Motability logo. Below is a hand using a calculator and a pile of bank notes and coins.

We want Motability to give customers:

  • profits
  • better value for money

From February 2022 Motability Operations will give a £250 new vehicle payment to customers.

Bus and Community Transport

Audrey Birt supported by Joanne Devitt.

A taxi. A man in a wheelchair in front of an Equality Act document. 2 women standing with a flipchart.

This year's good work includes:

2 woman next to a taxi
  • working with Transport Scotland to make sure there are accessible taxis across Scotland
  • inviting all 32 local councils to understand their Equality Act responsibilities
  • sharing disability training with local councils
  • talking with people who run taxis and private hire care about the Triple A standard
  • working with the Health and Social Care Alliance to make sure disabled people are involved at the start of any work on 20-Minute Neighbourhoods
2 teams of people meeting, shaking hands and talking.

Ferries and Planes

Hilary Stubbs supported by Linda Bamford and Naghat Ahmed.

A ferry. A man holding a large globe.

This year's good work includes:

3 documents with the title 'plans'
  • ferry and plane travel is starting to get back to normal after the pandemic
  • MACS have given information to a consultation - it was about how Scotland stays connected at the same time as looking after the environment
4 women, 1 is introducing the others to a fourth woman. They shake hands. A money bag with 50 pound notes sticking out of the top.

The Island's Connectivity Plan will replace the Scotland Ferries Plan when it ends in 2022.

MACS ran a session about their work to new Transport Scotland members.

This was the last year of the Ferries Accessibility Fund.

It helped make many things better.

Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

An Easy Read application form with a magnifying glass on top.

Hilary was on their panel for the MaaS Investment Fund in 2021 to check applications are accessible and inclusive.

Roads, Infrastructure and Active Travel

Susan Fulton

3 women chatting in a park.

This year's good work includes:

A car exhaust with fumes, crossed out by a diagonal red line.
  • helping organisations to see the need to have public places and spaces that everyone can get to and use
  • working with the Low Emission Zone exemption rules staff to make sure people can register in lots of different ways
  • working with organisations to give advice about Equality Impact Assessments
  • making sure disabled people are involved at the start of these Assessments
  • working with Paths for All to get more people walking and wheeling
  • working with the Scottish Road Works Commissioner to get rid of the barriers roadworks and road work signs
  • working with Public Health Scotland on the Health Inequality Impact Assessment - linked to using cars less
a woman writing on a notepad with the title 'conditions' next to a large green tick. A smiling man with his thumb up next to a vertical list of green ticks. A team of 6 people all crowded around the same plan on a table, pointing together at the centre.

MACS worked with many Scottish Government groups and gave information to many consultations.

Rail

Simon Watkins

A train with 2 older women stood on the platform. 2 young women in front of a train with a ramp. A map of the UK with Scotland highlighted in bright green.

This year's good work includes:

  • ScotRail Equalities Group agreed to look at how Passenger Assistance is used
  • the new organisation Great British Railwayswill have to improve accessibility
  • every rail station in the UK will be checked for accessibility
  • we will then make a map of what needs to be done to make the railways in Scotland accessible for all

 

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