Hi Everyone,
We are undergoing an access review of all our polling stations. We have 4
polling stations that are portacabins hired for one day only and because of
the uneven ground, these need to be levelled on blocks raising them up. This
causes a couple of issues to be raised with the DDA.
We have portable ramps for accessing some of these polling stations but the
ramps have no handrail. We have been told that portacabin do not hire ramps
but they could get them in if we were willing to buy them. Again this seems
an expensive exercise for just one day. Is this a case were it might be
considered unreasonable because of the cost?
The portacabins do not have toilet facilities and the polling staff have
traditionally used a local private housholders loo (the householder is then
financially compensated). It is extremely expensive to hire a portacabin WC
and this would not seem to be a reasonable alternative. Would we be
discriminating against disabled people if they were to apply for a polling
clerk position at their local polling station if we made it impossible for
them to work there, or would it be reasonable to give them an alternative
polling station to work at?
Any imput would be welcome
Thanks,
John
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