Marsha de Cordova became an MP on Thursday night when she was voted to serve for Battersea. Jared O'Mara also became an MP, wining his seat in Sheffield Hallam.
Marsha is registered blind and in her acceptance speech said, "As a visually impaired person myself I feel passionately about the rights of disabled people. Accessibility in our public places and on public transport still falls short of what is reasonable. I will use my time in parliament to lobby for improvements in these areas.In the fifth richest country in the word there can be no excuse for leaving behind a large number of our citizens"
Jared has Cerebral Palsey Hemiparesis. Jared told an interviewer, "Having a disability can make us more passionate, resilient, empathetic, and hard working than non-disabled candidates by virtue of everything being harder for us in life."
"I feel that every disabled candidate, whatever the party, could be better supported by the powers that be and more should be done to get disabled people with a wide range of disabilities in to public life."
- What do you see in the picture?
- Who do you think the people are?
Explain the story
- Why do you think people voted for Marsha and Jared? (because people thought they were the best candidates)
- What does Marsha mean by "accessibility in our public places"?
- What makes a place inaccessible?
- What sort of changes can make a place accessible?
- What does Marsha mean by 'large numbers of people are being left behind'?
- Why do you think Jared said life is harder for a person with disabilities?
- How do you think Jared and Marsha will change the Houses of Parliament?
- What is the law in the UK that protects people with disabilities? (Equality Act 2010)
- What other groups are protected in the Equality Act?
- What can we learn from Marsha and Jared?
- Why is this about No Outsiders?
No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the Equality Act in primary schools by Andrew Moffat
equalitiesprimary
-
No comments:
Post a Comment