London 2012 blog

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Earlier this month, I attended the fourth annual Disability Capital conference, which focuses on the civil rights of disabled and deaf people living and working in London.
 
The conference was held at ExCeL, which will be the venue for several Paralympic sports, including Boccia, Paralympic Table Tennis, Paralympic Powerlifting and Wheelchair Basketball.

During the Paralympic Games alone, we need to ensure that transport is available to all venues for up to 160,000 spectators each day. Approximately 15-20 per cent (24,000 – 32,000) of these spectators are expected to have specific access needs.
 
The ODA Transport team has already engaged with organisations of disabled people during our planning and we maintain regular contact with these organisations.  However, with more than 800 delegates, most of whom were disabled people, this conference was a great chance for us to connect with a large number of individual disabled Londoners.

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