Information for disabled people and carers

Benefits

• Home visits for Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit queries
  If you are housebound, ill, elderly or have difficulty getting around, we can arrange a home visit by one of our officers to help you.

Carers

• Caring for carers
  Support and advice on the help available to carers from Social Services, Health and voluntary organisations

Children and young people

• Caring for a disabled child
  Support, information and advice for parents caring for a disabled child
• Disabled Children Social Work Team
  The team provide social work support to disabled children and young people, aged 0-19 years old
• Portage Team
  Portage is a home-based intervention scheme for children under five with special needs
• Schools Disability Access Strategy
  Covers policy-making, service users, employment and access to the curriculum
• Special Educational Needs
  Information on Statutory Assessments, transport, Parent Partnership Service

Employment

• Disability policy
  The Council's commitment to providing equal opportunities to disabled persons in recruitment, promotion and training

Getting out and about

• DisabledGo
  Give access information for premises and locations in Waltham Forest

Housing

• Disabled Facility Grants (DFG)
  Grants to make adaptations to the houses of people with disabilities
• Housing advice for disabled people
  Advice on housing assessment issues affecting disabled people

Learning disabilities

• Learning Disability Team
  The team helps to plan and arrange care and support for adults with learning disabilities and their carers, and provide a range of specialist health services

Policies

• Disability Equality Scheme
  The Scheme has been developed with the involvement of 200 dilocal disability groups to ensure that disabled people are equal opportunity to participate and access Council services

Rubbish, waste and recycling

• Assisted collection
  Service provided to residents who, through illness or infirmity, are unable to put out their waste and do not have anyone else to assist them

Toilets

• Access to disabled toilets
  If you are disabled you are entitled to receive a radar key to allow you access to over 5000 public conveniences throughout the UK
• DisabledGo
  Give access information, including details of accessible toilets, for premises and locations in Waltham Forest

Transport

• Blue Badge Scheme
  Concessionary parking for people with disabilities
• DisabledGo
  Give access information, including details of parking and public transport, for premises and locations in Waltham Forest
• Disabled parking bays
  Marked out parking spaces in front of your house
• Scootability
  Scootability offers short-term loans of mobility scooters and power chairs to residents to use from their homes
• Taxicard Scheme
  The scheme can enable you to get cheaper taxi fares if you are unable to use public transport