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Financial assistance for families with severely disabled children and transport costs
- Authors:
- ROBERTS Keri, LAWTON Dot
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 13(5), November 1999, pp.333-345.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Families with severely disabled children encounter many difficulties in getting out and about. The inadequacy of statutory financial assistance for transport related costs is confirmed by an analysis of families receiving grants from the Family Fund Trust. A third of the sample of families with a severely disabled child received grants for transport related costs. Concludes by making recommendations for improving current statutory support.
Too young to count: the extra-mobility related costs of disabled children under five
- Author:
- HOWARD Marilyn
- Publisher:
- Disability Alliance
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 20p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the results of a survey to assess additional costs to families with disabled children under five years old. Areas discussed include transport and travel, heating, clothing, telephone bills, laundry, and paying for services which are required as a result of a child's disability.
Making the connections: the final report on transport and social exclusion
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 147p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines the links between social exclusion, transport and the location of services. It is particularly focused on access to those opportunities that have the most impact on life-chances, such as work, learning and healthcare. People may not be able to access services as a result of social exclusion. For example, they may be restricted in their use of transport by low incomes, or because bus routes do not run to the right places. Age and disability can also stop people driving and using public transport. Problems with transport provision and the location of services can reinforce social exclusion. They prevent people from accessing key local services or activities, such as jobs, learning, healthcare, food shopping or leisure. Problems can vary by type of area (for example urban or rural) and for different groups of people, such as disabled people, older people or families with children. The effects of road traffic also disproportionately impact on socially excluded areas and individuals through pedestrian accidents, air pollution, noise and the effect on local communities of busy roads cutting through residential areas.
Transport for social services day centres: users' and their families views of the services
- Authors:
- WILKINSON Althea, COONEY Margaret
- Publisher:
- Newham. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Survey of the views of transport users and their families, undertaken as part of the best value consultation process in the London Borough of Newham.