what do you think about the idea of compiling a ........

[mamazon]

concessions list?

i mean a list of the discounts or special rates and free entries that those with SN children can get.

I know that i have seen some posts on here that say about disocunts and special cards that get you free entry or whatever and i thought maybe if we all got together we could make it a kind of information page that MNHQ could put somewhere.

good idea

Good idea. Especially as most councils will give you a 'registered disabled card' that will help get discounts/free entry for carers.
Like Bristol zoo, we all gets in free. I'm in a wheelchair, so is DD and DS has Aspergers. But we act as carers for each other [grin}

thats exactly what i mean.

my local council has no such offerings so i would never have known about that.

i know about things like teh I count card but i heard recently that there is a scheme where SN children can go to Cinema's at a discount?

i thought that especially as we have the summer hols coming up it could be really usefull.

There's a website for that cinema thingy but can't remember it off top of head. Most places will allow a carer in for free with a disabled child. Its easier if your child is obviusly disabled but I've always asked with my AS son. ASsking sometimes gets them to do it even if its not policy. I also ask for discounts if its not 100% accessible cos I am in a wheelchair and so is DD. I ain't paying if I can't see everything!
Remember, Home educated kids can get free into various things too

There was one in my local paper the other night about a cinema card but that was just Apollo Cinemas. It was a carers get in free one.And locally disabled peole are entitled to a bus pass at 18 and many of our parents didn't know about it until school told them.(we use public transport quite a bit so was saving aboout £5 a week just in school time)

Here, anyone with high rate mobility gets a free bus pass. So DD will get one when she's 5 and I get one too.
Mind you, the things are pretty useless without accessible buses.......

this is exacty my point.
i have heard of dozens of schemes and things running that would be fantastic or would save huge amounts of money.

but they are rarely publicised and so unless someone actually goe sout of their way and asks there are probably many of us that don't know about it.

So how do we go about compiling all of this?

i figuered we would start a thread and we would all add the details of anything we know about.

after a week or so i will go through the thread and salvage as much of the info as i can and compile a list of all the details.

then we can speak with mnhq about maybe putting a page for it to be sourced.

A Cea card gives the carer a free ticket to the cinema when accompanying a disabled child. Download the form from www.ceacard.co.uk. I think there is a small charge for the card - i've not been brave enough to try my son at the cinema yet!