Car NEEDED for uni

Kirstina88

What area do you live in? Often in areas with low levels of people going into higher education they'll be funds available to give her a grant, it might only be £200 but it will help go towards her insurance. Get in touch with your local council and see if theres any funds available to her. Due to my financial circumstances I can often get a small grant!

bestpud

Have you actually visited the campus and assessed whether it is actually feasible to drive a car to lectures?

I ask because some have very little, if any, parking so it may not be much help to her. She will almost certainly need to get their very early to get a space if there are any. Plus, she will have to find a space when she goes back to the halls. That will be the biggest problem I'd have said. I'm guessing you have probably visited the campus and halls though, and know what parking is available.

Do contact the uni for all the reasons above and also, she should be able to use lifts etc if lectures are not on the ground floor. We often have to climb two floors and only those with a key are permitted to use the lift!

How would she feel about a motability scooter? It would be very helpful on a spread out campus but I don't know if she'd feel this was drawing attention to her disability or not?

aaranj

hi, found this on DLA website:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/DisabilityLivingAllowance/DG_10011816

If you Have Mobility Needs

To get the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance, your disability must be severe enough for you to have any of the following walking difficulties, even when wearing or using an aid or equipment you normally use:

• you are unable or virtually unable to walk, or you have no feet or legs
• you are assessed to be both 100% disabled because of loss of eyesight and not less than 80% disabled because of deafness and you need someone with you when you are out of doors
• you are severely mentally impaired with severe behavioural problems and qualify for the highest rate of care component
• the effort of walking could threaten your life or seriously affect your health
• you need guidance and/or supervision from another person when walking out of doors in unfamiliar places

There are two rates of the mobility component depending on how your disability affects you:

• the lower rate, if you need guidance or supervision out of doors
• the higher rate, if you have any of the other, more severe, walking difficulties

Some people will be entitled to only the care component or the mobility component, others will be entitled to both.

Lindy-Lou_2

Thank you to everybody, I really appreciate it.

Horace - we visited Birmingham uni and that was 3rd on her list, not for any other reason than size - they have been brilliant in contacting her etc and it would have been great as her friend will be doing her last year as my dd starts - not meant I guess.

She has a parking space at the halls and we would have to make arrangements at the other end, still weighing it all up.

Thank you to everybody.

Lindylou

popularfurball

As a student who has a car at uni, in terms of insurance - make sure you get a policy that covers it thoroughly for theft/break in's / fire as like halls, the cars on the halls car park seem to be popular for missing radios/tyres. However loads of students have cars at uni, and it tends to be free to keep it at halls if the facility is there, although to park by the parts of campus where lectures are at my uni costs £3.50 a day - no other rates.

Also, you might want to check out the room as early as possible - the beds etc are going to cause problems I would imagine.