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A disabled woman was barred from a tribunal to decide whether she was entitled to benefits – because she was in a wheelchair.
Sylvia Middleton, 65, was turned away by security staff in case a fire broke out in the five-storey building.
It later emerged that wheelchair users have been denied entry to Acorn House in Basildon, Essex, for three months over the misplaced health and safety concerns.
They included others attending disability tribunals and workers attempting to visit offices in the mixed-use block.
Disabled mother told she can't attend her own disability tribunal because her WHEELCHAIR is a 'health and safety risk' | Mail Online
Does the MoJ tribunals Service not have any brains move it to the ground floor or is that too much hard work for you.
Sylvia Middleton, 65, was turned away by security staff in case a fire broke out in the five-storey building.
It later emerged that wheelchair users have been denied entry to Acorn House in Basildon, Essex, for three months over the misplaced health and safety concerns.
They included others attending disability tribunals and workers attempting to visit offices in the mixed-use block.
Disabled mother told she can't attend her own disability tribunal because her WHEELCHAIR is a 'health and safety risk' | Mail Online
Does the MoJ tribunals Service not have any brains move it to the ground floor or is that too much hard work for you.
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