A student is campaigning to get the blue disabled badge changed to include a standing figure - to make it more inclusive. Sam Vestey, 20, has been lobbying his local MPs for the change on the badge to represent unseen and 'invisible' disabilities.
The student has a chromosomal condition called DiGeorge syndrome and survived a pineoblastoma brain tumour as a child. He says he is often challenged by people about how disabled he really is - especially over parking spaces.
Sam, who has been campaigning for a more inclusive disability badge at Cleeve school since he was in year eight, said: “There are many people like me with disabilities that effect our mobility over time which means we need wheelchairs for when we are tired. However, because we can walk a lot or a little of the time, we get many people questioning our need for a disabled badge asking if we are disabled or not, especially if we don’t look disabled on the outside.”
