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Dale Proud To Support Level Playing Field Weeks Of Action

6 March 2020

Club News

Dale Proud To Support Level Playing Field Weeks Of Action

6 March 2020

Rochdale AFC and Dale In The Community Sports Trust are proud to be supporting the Level Playing Fields campaign at this weekend’s game.

During half-time of our Sky Bet League One match against Rotherham United, our Ability Counts Open Age team will parade around the Crown Oil Arena pitch.

They currently second place in the Greater Manchester Ability Counts League. Please give them a huge round of applause!

One lucky member of the team will be our dedicated 12th Man on Saturday.

They will be a guest of the Club on the day and proudly walk out behind the teams with the match ball, presenting it to the match officials as the teams line up ahead of kick-off.

Level Playing Field is a registered charity in England and Wales, and acts as a campaigning and advisory organisation to its membership and other parties across all sports.

Level Playing Field (LPF) believes that being a disabled person is a social issue and that an individual only becomes disabled because of the social, attitudinal and environmental barriers that the individual faces (this is known as the social model of disability).

Efforts are focussed on removing these barriers in all sports. LPF and its members will know they have succeeded when:

* all fans can enjoy an equal experience at live sports events;

* all stadia and sports venues are fully accessible and inclusive;

* all customer and/or fan services are equal and inclusive;

* disabled people are seen as customers with a commercial value.

We are guided by the following principles:

* anti-discrimination – so that disabled people do not face discrimination arising from poor or misinformed practice;

* equality of opportunity or making things fairer – for disabled people in every aspect of their contact with sports clubs and venues;

* increasing the independence and choices that disabled people have;

* individual needs/diversity – recognising that a disabled person is an individual who, like all others, has his or her own needs, abilities, human rights and responsibilities;

* integration/inclusion – such that services are made accessible to disabled people and offer choice;

* involvement in decision-making – so that disabled people, and/or their advocates, are consulted before decisions which affect them are made;

* the social model of disability explains that it is social and physical ‘barriers’ that cause ‘disability’ not impairments.


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