Type 2 Blue badges

azure said:

No, no they don't. I used to process the BlueBadge applications. Your authority may be extra strict but what I said earlier, and your correction, is a fact.

Please can we stop this bickering. Some groups automatically get a Blue Badge, others need to fill in the rest of the form and be assessed - just as I said way back in this thread.

The Blue Badge scheme is national. Applications are processed by local authorities according to national rules.

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But I'm not bickering, Just stating what I know as fact in my local authority and being denigrated for it.

For the person that stated his son is in receipt of high rate DLA but can walk, he is still entitled by default to a badge, so this again is evidence that different authorities are interpreting the rules in their own way. My son can walk miles, even run the distance but cannot do it unsupervised so he qualifies by default as he receives high rate DLA mobility component, so why is their son being told he does not qualify?

Anyway, thats all I'm going to say on the matter, as clearly I know nothing!

Jamesuk9 said:

But I'm not bickering, Just stating what I know as fact in my local authority and being denigrated for it.

For the person that stated his son is in receipt of high rate DLA but can walk, he is still entitled by default to a badge, so this again is evidence that different authorities are interpreting the rules in their own way. My son can walk miles, even run the distance but cannot do it unsupervised so he qualifies by default as he receives high rate DLA mobility component, so why is their son being told he does not qualify?

Anyway, thats all I'm going to say on the matter, as clearly I know nothing!

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If a person who automatically qualified was refused a badge, that would be a simple matter of complaining and having the decision overturned. I don't disbelieve that wrong decisions are sometimes made.

Certain groups of people are automatically approved. However, those groups of people are very specific, and the conditions for an automatic badge issue must be wholly fulfilled, including the provision of evidence if requested.

Blue Badge application forms come with a booklet of Guidance Notes to help people fill the form in and they're worth a read as some of the questions could be misinterpreted or might seem ambiguous if a person wasn't familiar with the policy. For some conditions, it might seem as though the questions in the second half don't apply because they are worded in a way that might imply 'walking difficulties' only means certain things eg the questions about how,far a person can walk. If an applicant was to write "10 miles" because their disability was hidden, such as an ASD, and they didn't give any further information, they would be disallowed, but writing in as much explanation as possible can help enormously, as can careful answering eg not "10 miles" but something that both states the distance and emphasises that they can't walk any distance outside alone or whatever the situation is.

The OP's issue here is whether this is going to,count as a 'temporary condition'. If it does, they wouldn't get a Blue Badge as they're not awarded for temporary conditions. If there's any doubt, it's always worth filling a form in and seeing if a person does qualify. In this case, as Jaylee has said, it would be worth contacting the hospital to see what facilities are available and what advice they can give.