Taxis: Disability

(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2017 to Question 110091, on taxis: disability, what his Department's definition is of vulnerable individuals; and whether that definition includes blind or partially sighted people.


Answered by
John Hayes Portrait
John Hayes
This question was answered on 16th November 2017

For the purposes of the statutory guidance to be issued under 177 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017, the Department intends to use the definition of a vulnerable adult in section 42 of the Care Act 2014, that such a person:

(a) has needs for care and support (whether or not the authority is meeting any of those needs),

(b) is experiencing, or is at risk of, abuse or neglect, and

(c) as a result of those needs is unable to protect himself or herself against the abuse or neglect or the risk of it.

The safeguarding measures in the statutory guidance are aimed at helping the range of vulnerable people and will be consulted upon.

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