GUERNSEY’S first racing wheelchair competitor has been kitted out with a chair by a group of local businesses.

A while ago I wrote an article bemoaning the States’ tardiness in addressing ‘social issues’. These included equality for women, civil partnerships and equalising the ages of heterosexual and homosexual consent. Afterwards I was contacted by someone representing people with disabilities in Guernsey, asking me why I had left their situation off my list of [...]

CONDOR has stepped up moves to improve its service for disabled passengers following a complaint made by a traveller last week.

EDUCATION minister Carol Steere would like a full wheelchair service, but will not support the requete calling for one.

A DISABLED man has described his humiliation after Condor staff refused to help him board a boat to Guernsey.

HEALTH minister Hunter Adam yesterday apologised for his department’s handling of a report about the quality of its wheelchair service.

THE wheelchair report was not meant to discredit Health and Social Services, according to one of its managers who wrote it.

A petition to force Health and Social Services to introduce a dedicated wheelchair service will go to the States in April.

DEPUTIES would not have fully understood the needs of the island’s disabled if they had seen only the amended version of a wheelchair report, according to the Guernsey Disability Alliance.

ACTION was taken yesterday by the Health and Social Services Department to try to contain the damage caused by revelations that it had selectively quoted from a critical report about wheelchair provision in the Bailiwick.