Disabled parents and school

lindos90

As Ive said before, its all about interpretation and what advice individuals have been given (which is not consistant or clear).

What you really need OP is to get your SW to really look into it for you. Explain why its not possible for your partner to do the school runs, perhaps get a costing for how much a taxi would be 4 times per day. Ask if a proper assessment has actually been done, are they declining because they have assessed and you dont meet their criteria (if so it would be useful to see that criteria) or are they simply saying 'dont think thats in our remit'?

It may well be at the end of the day you are not entitled to support to get your kids to school, either from the adult team, childrens team or the LEA, but without someone doing a real comprehensive assessment of your situation, (which may include a case conference), then you dont realy have an answer. If thats the case then thats it, but at least you will have it explained and I think it would be worth persuing to actually get someone involved professionally. Everyones situation is different, but without an assessment of your individual situation, its all just guesswork and supposition.

Have you contacted anyone on the disabled parents forum that I told you about?

This is a fairly lengthy document, but there are several areas that seem to apply to you. It may be worth sifting through it and discussing it with your SW. It doesnt specifically say anything about school runs, but it talks about disabled parents needing support to look after their children (and I would see the task of the school run falling within this)

http://www.frg.org.uk/pdfs/6.%20ssfor%20disabled%20parents.pdf

Oldernotwiser

lindos90 wrote: »

Im not assuming that sorry for any confusion. Going to school and back twice per day, is four journeys per day altogether. Apologies if the way I worded it was not clear.

You don't pay a return fare for a taxi. Sending a child to school in one would be two single journeys.

Oldernotwiser

jetta_wales wrote: »

Not all aprentices earn less than minimum wage though they usually do in the begining, his wage is £7 an hour about £14.5k a year. We are entitled to tax credits he has working I have child but that is all. His wage will be able to increase greatly in the future as is the purpose of skilled aprentiships.

So you don't receive ESA/DLA or any help with the rent?

lindos90

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

You don't pay a return fare for a taxi. Sending a child to school in one would be two single journeys.

Yep I see where you are coming from, guess its my fault for making the assumption that the kids are not old enough to walk to school themselves (or thre would be no need for this thread) and that at least one of the children is too young to just be dropped off at the school gate. Perhaps thats because my youngest is only five, and I take her into the school classroom as all the other mums do, to settle them in before leaving. I was just putting myself in the OPs shoes.

Guess its upto the OP if she wants to disclose the age of her children, all I have seen is in the first post where she says her eldest is 6, so perhaps there is even a pre school child involved too, ho knows? Thats why the OP would be better off getting specialist advice and assessment of her situation and needs.

Strapped

lindos90 wrote: »

Im not assuming that sorry for any confusion. Going to school and back twice per day, is four journeys per day altogether. Apologies if the way I worded it was not clear. Why would you assume that Im assuming the child comes home for lunch?

Parent doesn't need to travel with the child. A lot of the kids at our school come by taxi, and believe it or not, are not just shoved out of the car onto the kerb.

ETA: And drat, broke my resolve not to post any more on this thread!

Strapped

To sum up: OP's argument is that it's OK for her OH to get/use a motability car for work, because that is financially supporting her.

BUT - he is not financially supporting her enough, so she needs extra money to get her kids to school.

You can't have it both ways!

when_will_it_end

from what i understand the spouse is the carer
he earns over 95 pounds so can not get carers allowence
can someone else not claim this and use the money to take the children to school and do some cleaning as stated in another post a cleaner is needed

sunnyone

My husband phoned the DVLA today as we arnt using my disabled tax disc at present because Im driving one of his cars and we have decided not to replace my car until I can find a suitable drive from wheelchair WAV, he will keep using the pick up and Im going to keep the Discovery until my new car is ready so I want to use my tax disc on it till then, he asked if he could use the car and the answer was NO, it is for ME as the disabled person ONLY!

He even asked about taking the kid to school and the answer was again NO, it was the same when asking if motability was treated diffrently to other disabled classed cars NO and the same again when asking about the mythical test case that jetta has invented.

We have to drive our son to school but we knew that and undertook that obligation when we sent him to this school, we have used taxis when we have had to but fortunatly it hasnt been very often because we live over 6 miles away.

sock-knitter

in my area, cutbacks mean that disabled kids in special schools will no longer get transport.
i have two disabled sons, in different special schools, approx 25 miles apart, i am a single mum who also has disabilities, hrc, lrm,

Richie-from-the-Boro

Strapped wrote: »

Parent doesn't need to travel with the child. A lot of the kids at our school come by taxi, and believe it or not, are not just shoved out of the car onto the kerb.

ETA: And drat, broke my resolve not to post any more on this thread!

I agree, not all, but most taxi drivers are themselves parents.

All taxi drivers of both type are badged to Social Services / Schoolteacher / Police advanced check standards, without incident, make millions of school runs each and every year with kids of all ages and abilities in general and disabilities in particular.