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Originally Posted by richard s
There was a family who lived near me with a disability vehicle a VW Sharan, this was for their daughter poor thing who has cerebral palsy (aged 8) she can walk short distances, they have two other older children (13 and 17) children. The parents are fit and able, the mother does part time and the father is I suppose the carer! he stays at home all day while the younger daughter goes to a special school, she is picked up from home by Taxi Bus and is away from 8 am to 4 pm, 5 days a week.
Question being why does the father not go to work, he is fit and able enough and is in his mid to late thirties.
There are people who deserve mobility cars and there are those who do not. I get peeded off paying in my tax's to people who do not.
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Caring for a child with CP generates a lot of extra housework. If she is getting DLA then that is there to allow a carer - presumably, in this case, her dad - to spend the extra time at home, rather than going out to earn a crust. He will have a genuine need to be home, and we're he to have to go out to earn money instead of being funded by the State, family life would be a lot tougher than it already is.
Believe me, I know a family with a daughter of similar age who has CP, and another family with a daughter in her teens whose disability is profound and whose needs are complex.
In both cases, the daytime when the child is out of the house is most definitely *not* time on the sofa in front of Jeremy Kyle.