Free wheels

In the 3 judge panel decisions CE/509/2013 CE/327/2013 they suggested that the SSWP could take wheelchair availability out of the question by stating that manual wheelchairs will be available as needed on the Access to Work Scheme. Does anyone know if the SSWP has taken them up on this?

Lots of old stuff on the net about Access To Work and manual wheelchairs. Interestingly, little that is recent. Worth querying whether it’s still an allowable item.

Many people now reporting that assessments have been even more outsourced and that if an item isn’t on the prescribed list used by the company doing the assessment then it’s not accepted as needed. When one considers that such assessments can now be done by (no irony here whatsoever) the likes of Capita it’s not difficult to imagine that they source their equipment from another company and if the likes of a manual wheelchair aren’t on the list (not a lot of profit in anything without a motor in it I suspect) then there’s no chance of getting one from Access To Work.

The other side of this of course is the overwhelming number of people who will state that a manual is only of use to them if someone else is pushing it!

Yes, we are in the same building and so this could be a conversation, but I’m currently working from home 😊