Blue Badge assessment - was this a reasonable assessment?

Silvertabby

It's not just the UK. A friend in Oz (over knee amputation, can only walk with two sticks) has to certify her on-going entitlement to her blue badge every two years. To check that she 'hasn't regained use of her (missing) leg'.

tomtom256

Silvertabby wrote: »

It's not just the UK. A friend in Oz (over knee amputation, can only walk with two sticks) has to certify her on-going entitlement to her blue badge every two years. To check that she 'hasn't regained use of her (missing) leg'.

No but she could have gotten a prosthetic though that improved her abilities to walk etc so she may have improved that way.


Prosthetics have come on in recent years.



It's not all black and white and that's why they have assessments/re-assessments, it may sound daft but there damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Silvertabby

tomtom256 wrote: »

No but she could have gotten a prosthetic though that improved her abilities to walk etc so she may have improved that way.

Prosthetics have come on in recent years.

It's not all black and white and that's why they have assessments/re-assessments, it may sound daft but there damned if they do and damned if they don't.

I hear you, but her real leg was so badly damaged in the accident she couldn't weight-bear on it for over 12 months. She never gained the confidence needed to use her prosthetic leg properly, and I doubt she ever will.

Savvy_Sue

Silvertabby wrote: »

It's not just the UK. A friend in Oz (over knee amputation, can only walk with two sticks) has to certify her on-going entitlement to her blue badge every two years. To check that she 'hasn't regained use of her (missing) leg'.

Agreed, Oz sounds just as disability unfriendly. I saw a hysterical thing on Facebook (hysterical as in if you didn't laugh you WOULD cry) by Adam Bowes born with no legs, having to prove to the NDIS that he's still legless.