Blue Badge reform Survey

Footnotes

[1] Transport Scotland, (2010) Scottish Transport Statistics, p.61

[2] The figure of 275,000 excludes missing returns from Three relatively small Local Authorities. This actually implies a good match from the reported statistics from the Scottish Household Survey which are currently at 283,000

[3] Note that the AFCS criteria only came into force on 9th May 2011 and so will not be reflected in the statistics presented.

[4] Original circular is here: http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/GEN1982_02.pdf

[5] Original circular is here: http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/1993_19.pdf

[6] Original circular is here: http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/pcs/PCS2005(DD)05.pdf

[7] Though the role of the person who filled out the survey at these organisations is not always clear.

[8] In areas in which the majority of mobility assessments are undertaken by GPs a mean average of 7% were refused as opposed to 10% in areas led by OTs and 11% overall. However, the data is significantly skewed by three Local Authorities in which the refusal rate is exceptionally high (60%, 36% and 30%, far higher than the remaining Authorities). Therefore the median seems a better measure.

[9] This includes data for the OT led areas which have rates of 30% or above, which is nearly 7% above the next highest authority, which is a GP led area.

[10] The actual methods are as follows. The current number of discretionary Badges in circulation by that Local Authority were divided by 3 (as they are normally issued every three years). This was then multiplied by 1 minus the refusals rate (e.g. 1- 0.05 where the refusal rate is 5%). This figure was then used as a notional number of discretionary Badge applications. The notional number of applications per year were then summed for each Health Board area (as most Health Boards service more than one Local Authority area). The amount spent by that Health Board was then divided by the notional number of discretionary applications to get a approximate assessment cost per discretionary Badge.

[11] Note that the sample size for under 16s is very small, which may explain its somewhat anomalous pattern, and the high level of variability.

[12] (from the Scottish Household Survey)
The SHS uses eight household types defined as follows:

  • A single adult household contains one adult of working age and no children.
  • A single parent household contains one adult of any age and one or more children.
  • A single pensioner household contains one adult of pensionable age and no children. Pensionable age is 60 for women and 65 for men.
  • A small family household contains two adults of any age and one or two children.
  • An older smaller household contains one adult of working age and one of pensionable age and no children, or two adults of pensionable age and no children.
  • A large adult household contains three or more adults and no children.
  • A small adult household contains two adults of working age and no children.
  • A large family household contains two adults of any age and three or more children, or three or more adults of any age and one or more children.