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Islington Council

Whether you are born with a disability, have a child with a disability, or develop a disability later in life - Islington Council can help. Social Services have a number of different teams, who deal specifically with different types of disabilities - both physical and mental.

For further details just click on the links to specific pages:

  • Disability - What's New - latest news and events.
  • Occupational Therapy is a service offered to people when, as a result of permanent and substantial disability, they are having difficulty carrying out everyday tasks by themselves.
  • Blue Badges provide parking concessions for people with severe walking difficulties who travel as drivers or passengers.
  • Home Care provides personal home care to support people so that they can remain in their homes.
  • Meals in the home deliver meals to housebound older or disabled people who have a permanent and substantial disability.
  • Sensory Team provide support services to people who are blind, partially sighted, deaf, or hard of hearing.
  • Equality and Diversity Unit are the team responsible for driving the equality and diversity agenda across the full range of council services.
  • For information on childcare and services for children with special needs, click: Children's Information Service


    Travel

    If you are registered as disabled you may qualify for a Freedom Pass, which allows you free travel on London's rail, buses and tubes. Click: www.freedompass.org

    For details on mobility issues surrounding travelling by bus and river in the capital, click: www.transportforlondon.gov.uk

    Taxicard

    Taxicards are only issued on the grounds of mobility.

    How does it work?

    The table below shows what you pay for a single journey (remember any amount over the fare limit, you are responsible for paying)

    Most Boroughs (including Islington) Member Flat Rate Borough Maximum Subsidy Fare Limit
    From 6am-8pm Mon-Fri £1.50 £10.30 £11.80
    From 9-10pm on Fri, from 6am-10pm Sat-Sun £1.50 £11.30 £12.80
    From 10pm-6am Mon-Sun £1.50 £12.80 £14.30

    Taxicard is currently valid with Computercab only. You can either book in advance or pick it up on the street.

    You are eligible for a Taxicard if you meet the following criteria:

    • have serious mobility difficulties so that they either cannot use public transport, or find it virtually impossible to do
    • have a disability that is permanent, having lasted, or expected to last, at least twelve months
    • have a walking impairment that causes them to walk only with excessive labour and at an extremely slow pace or with excessive pain at all times

    Taxicards will automatically be issued to applicants if:

    • they are in receipt of higher rate mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance (as evidenced by an original Certificate of Entitlement from DLA) hold a War Pensioner mobility supplement (as evidenced by a letter of award for this benefit)
    • hold a War Pensioner mobility supplement (as evidenced by a letter of award for this benefit)
    • they are registered blind or partially blind (as evidenced by a BD8 or CVI100 ophthalmologist report)
    • their disabilities have lasted at least 12 months, or are expected to last at least 12 months.

    Applicants who cannot demonstrate that they hold any of the above will be asked to attend a mopbility assessment.

    Please note that children under 3 do not qualify unless it can be demonstrated that they require an oxygen cylinder to be carried with them at all times.  Islington operated the scheme on the same basis as the Disability Living Allowance which states that a child up to the age of 3 can be carried or be in a carriage/pushchair.

    For more information about Taxicard, visit www.taxicard.co.uk

    www.motability.co.uk
    Motability is a national UK charity, which helps disabled people and their families to become more mobile. It was set up in 1977 as a government initiative to provide vehicles and powered wheelchairs to disabled people.


      Useful links

      There are a number of websites that offer help, practical advice and information for people with disabilities. To find out more click on the links below:



      Page Last Updated: 03 September 2008