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« on: January 07, 2025, 21:06:27 »

from the ORR» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about)

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The Office of Rail and Road is asking for views on a new annual assessment, to be launched in 2025, that will rate the performance of how train companies provide assistance to disabled passengers.

ORR said the new assessment of train operators’ and Network Rail’s performance in delivering passenger assistance will strengthen the regulator’s ability to hold operators to account for poor performance.

It will also highlight good practice to share across the industry, and drive improvements in the provision of the service for passengers. Feedback from passengers, including what ORR gets from its regular passenger surveys, has highlighted that assistance needs to be delivered more reliably.

ORR has proposed that operators be assessed on two core areas: their actual delivery of assistance and their capability to improve. They will be measured across several factors, against three levels of performance - Upper, Middle and Lower – with a potential further assessment of whether an operator’s performance is improving or worsening.

More detail of the proposals are in the consultation document. They were developed through a process of informal engagement with disabled people’s organisations, industry bodies and other regulators.

The consultation will close at 17:00 on Friday 14 February 2025. Responses can be sent by online form, by email to ATP@orr.gov.uk, or by post to: Assistance Benchmarking Consultation, Office of Rail and Road, 25 Cabot Square, London, E14 4QZ.

https://www.orr.gov.uk/search-consultations/benchmarking-operators-performance-rail-passenger-assistance
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« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2025, 03:41:33 »

The best way to do it in my opinion would be to  bring in disabled people to train staff and write the training modules.

Having spent a couple of months temporarily  disabled in the summer, I discovered some parts of my training in assistance was great sounding on paper, but not so good in reality when the shoe was on the other foot and I was experiencing it from the customer side.

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