Blue Badge Renewal

BobQ

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

There are in essence two groups those who are [DLAHRM & discretionary] and are not [independent mobility assessment ] automatically entitled, this independent mobility assessment carried out by an OT or Physio would then be considered by a panel. Now the LA not the DfT is responsible and accountable.
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- no one, not one person ever should ever be able to 'skip' the assessment.

Those individuals in the non- discretionary group should all be made subject to the assessment, and those LA's that are clearly still allowing through the old self-assessment with a GP's letter should sanctioned and made to follow the DfT’s good practice which was distributed last year ........

If you read the DTp guidelines, those not automatically entitled (discretionary) should be subject to an independent assessment. They do NOT state that they necessarily have to attend an assessment interview with a OT. It could be a paper based assessment. It is perfectly acceptable for a GP to provide factual medical information (but not opinion) to a trained and independent assessor who can make a decision based on the available facts. This may include approval or rejection as well as calling the applicant to attend an assessment interview in person. An authority doing this is in fact following the new process not the old one.

iceblue_3

Just a quick update... Badge now expired 2 weeks. Promised call from OT not received, no communication at all from Council. Life has become much more difficult.