Children’s Community Disability Equipment

1.What is the value of community disability equipment provided by your organisation to disabled and terminally ill children* in your area, for the periods, 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020 and 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021?

1st April 2019 – 31st March is £415,265.49

1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021 is £508,266.68

2. The number of individual pieces of equipment supplied to disabled and terminally ill children* in your area for the periods, 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020 and 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021?

1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020 is 1,453

1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021 is 1,519

These figures include such items as buggies, specialist beds, standing frames, hoists, car seats and specialist seating. They also include mobile or fixed ramps (those not coded and considered an adaptation/structural). The figures exclude structural adaptations, consumables such as nasal gastric tubing and incontinence supplies, IT equipment or surgical aids, consumables such as postage and batteries and IT equipment.

*as defined by the 2010 Equality Act