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.](/media/51808/sct03225512482_g29.jpg)
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.](/media/51809/sct03225512482_g30.jpg)
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.](/media/51810/sct03225512482_g31.jpg)
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.](/media/51811/sct03225512482_g32.jpg)
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.](/media/51812/sct03225512482_g33.jpg)
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.](/media/51813/sct03225512482_g34.jpg)
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.](/media/51814/sct03225512482_g35.jpg)
This year's good work includes:
![2 woman next to a taxi](/media/51815/sct03225512482_g36.jpg)
- 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.](/media/51816/sct03225512482_g37.jpg)
Ferries and Planes
Hilary Stubbs supported by Linda Bamford and Naghat Ahmed.
![A ferry.
A man holding a large globe.](/media/51817/sct03225512482_g38.jpg)
This year's good work includes:
![3 documents with the title 'plans'](/media/51818/sct03225512482_g39.jpg)
- 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.](/media/51819/sct03225512482_g40.jpg)
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.](/media/51820/sct03225512482_g41.jpg)
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.](/media/51821/sct03225512482_g42.jpg)
This year's good work includes:
![A car exhaust with fumes, crossed out by a diagonal red line.](/media/51822/sct03225512482_g43.jpg)
- 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.](/media/51823/sct03225512482_g44.jpg)
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.](/media/51824/sct03225512482_g45.jpg)
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