Portland College
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| Address | Nottingham Rd, Mansfield NG18 4TJ, United Kingdom |
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| Hours | Closes soon: 4PM ⋅ Opens 9:30AM Fri |
| Phone | +44 1623 499111 |
| Number of students | 270 |
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| ID | 2100784 |
About Portland College
Portland College is an education establishment near Ravenshead in Nottinghamshire. It is situated in 20 acres of Sherwood Forest approximately 3 miles south of the town of Mansfield. Portland College has around 270 students aged between 16 and 60.
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Pupils say they struggle to access period products
... Staff at Portland College, in Mansfield, Notts, a residential college for young disabled people, say the Period Products Scheme has helped their students to feel comfortable talking about periods...
Wheelchair users will not be forced to keep it wet by buses
... Mr McDade had tried to spent time in Mansfield on Friday, and was back to Portland College, a residential specialist college in the vicinity of Raven head...
Wheelchair users "will not be forced to keep it wet" by buses
Ryan McDade wet himself after he was passed by three buses in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
says A wheelchair, he was "forced to wet" to himself, as he left at a bus stop shelter for an hour.
Ryan McDade said he was passed by three Pronto buses in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
The 20-year-old said he felt "dehumanized" by the driver and The Experience "humiliating".
bus operators Stagecoach East Midlands wrote to Mr. McDade sorry to ask, after the review of CCTV footage, adding: "we will not tolerate this type of misconduct".
Mr McDade had tried to spent time in Mansfield on Friday, and was back to Portland College , a residential specialist college in the vicinity of Raven head.
The musical Theater student, cerebral palsy, said: "We waited for over an hour and in that time, three bus driver drove past easy, one of them opened the door to the bus and just said 'no'.
"We waited so long that I was forced to make me wet, this is really humiliating.
"There's a lady sitting next to me, I can't tell you the fix. "
Mr McDade suffers from curvature of the spine, and can therefore hampered the use of public close real toilets.
'this is shameful'He said it was the First Time , he was "point-blank "refused" entry to a bus, but he said it was a place in the wheelchair area of the bus.
"It was to inhuman, always on a bus [in a wheelchair] is A Nightmare ," he said.
"The bus is My Way , with Independence , so when someone would say:" you can 'T get on the bus" as it is on Friday, someone take away that Independence . "
Stagecoach East Midlands - operates Pronto buses - said it was "extremely concerned" by what is said happened to RyanCeri Smith, policy and campaigns manager for the disability charity Scope, said: "It is a shame that Ryan had to endure this terrible experience.
"Public Transport will serve, each in our society, but disabled people are left in the lurch, Every Day . "
Stagecoach East Midlands operating the Pronto bus service.
In a written response to Mr McDade complaint, The Company said he offered his "sincere apology to Ryan".
He added: "Two of our employees have not complied with the guidelines of The Company in terms of both stopping for passengers and disability awareness. "
The driver", interviewed in the framework of the formal disciplinary procedure".
A spokesman for The Operator said: "We are very disappointed that Ryan was disappointed on this occasion.
"We also have to apologize for speaking directly to Ryan' s mother. "
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