Staying out for the summer

Music festivals are more popular than they have ever been, but access to them for people with learning disabilities still needs to be improved; Mary O’Hara reports: With the festival season in full swing there are a couple of questions very much on the minds of disabled music-lovers: just how good is access to these events and what is being done to make it better? While hundreds of thousands of people across the country are excitedly dusting off camping gear and heading for venues in fields and farms the issue of whether the spectrum of disabilities is catered for is