Blue badge form. Can anyone help please?

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I've just got the renewal form for ds's blue badge. The only bit that seems relevant to ASD at all is the box asking how far the person can walk. Well, I've put that ds cannot walk anywhere without constant close supervision but will this be enough? It doesn't give me a chance to say why ie his erratic behaviour, running off, lying on the ground, no sense of danger etc etc. Of course they ask for our GP's name and address so that they can ask her for her opinion but I was wondering if I can rely on this or if I should include a covering letter. Has anyone done this, and would it make any difference? TIA.

best thing is ring them. I have always found them REALY helpful........oh and come to the meet up

Ha ha, you caught me! Well, I was thinking I might you know, especially as this weekend was so horrendous with our neighbours from hell I was driven out of the house anyway. I might need somewhere to go next week as well. Honestly, the stress I'm getting from living next to them is ten times the stress I get from having an SN child. Sorry, enough ranting (can you tell I'm still wound up?), the thing is I might have plans for sunday (good ones, not murdering the neighbours in their stupid noisy spa pool by dropping their stupid noisy 'music' system in it with them) so I'm still not sure. Will probably know later in the week.

As for blue badge people maybe I will ring them. It's just that I know the normal procedure is for them to contact the GP but ds is a healthy kid (and so bloomin' awkward he'd have to be at death's door to warrant taking him to the doc) that they hardly know him at the surgery. Plus, even if they did, they wouldn't know what he is like to take out would they? Seems a daft system to me. Surely it would be better to contact the staff at his special school as they take him out all the time and see the difficulties. Perhaps I'm worrying over nothing and the system accounts for this, I just hate relying on complete strangers to say the right thing on my behalf. I really do need the badge and I'm worried some box-ticker will refuse to renew it.

does DS get high rate mobility ? if so i think they will just give them the badge .

No he's only on low-rate. I was supposed to do an appeal but couldn't face it.

know what you mean about appeals. one of my 3 gets low rate mobility and she got a blue badge, i just said that her autism meant that she was unable to walk independantly.
it may help to mention SN school.

Mmm yes, maybe a quick note to attach then. I did start writing an explanation of the difficulties of taking ds out and it started to get a bit long which was why I started to wonder if it was a good idea! Maybe I should just have more faith in the GP and see what happens. I can always kick up a stink if he doesn't get it . I suppose the fact that he's already got one helps, they might have to have a good reason to actually take it away from him.

Could you put a covering note in briefly explaining how his ASD affects him, and put that any further clarification may be best met by the staff at his school as well as the GP?

I put a letter in with our first application as the form was pants and left no room for explanation of DD2s condition!

Yes will do that, thanks Sidge. Now, just got to sort out some passport sized photos!