Useful Information

Bus Pass – Bus pass for people with disabilities for free travel in and around Scotland. A companion concession card may be available for those requiring a companion for travel. 

Blue Badge – The Blue Badge scheme is designed to help disabled people who have severe mobility problems lead independent lives by allowing them to park near to a venue and have easier access to the services they want to use.

Community Car Scheme – These services are made up of volunteers who organise transport to and from hospitals in the Perth & Kinross Council area. Charges depend on the mileage and cost of fuel.

Shopmobility – Perth Shopmobility is a PKAVS project which lends wheelchairs and scooters to people with mobility Impairment. 

Passenger Assistance – Assistance for those who need help when travelling on trains whether this has been booked in advance or not.

We all welcome a little extra assistance now and again, particularly when travelling alone. Thistle Assistance is an initiative to help you feel safer and more comfortable when using public transport.

MotoClarity – The number one destination for a nearly new or second-hand wheelchair accessible car, MPV or minibus from UK suppliers and mobility conversion specialists.

Trainline is Europe’s leading train and coach app. Working with 270 rail and coach companies to offer our customers travel to thousands of destinations in and across 45 countries in Europe.

Radar Key – A key which opens Accessible toilets which have Radar locks. 

Toilet pass – Our ‘Can’t Wait’ card is available to help you gain access to toilet facilities when you need them most. 

Comfort Scheme – Organisations in Perth and Kinross which allow access to their toilets without having to use their other services. 

The Education (Disability Strategies and Pupils Education Records) (Scotland) Act 2002 requires all Education Authorities to prepare and implement an Accessibility Strategy for all schools for which they are responsible.

Contribution Charges – The amount that someone may have to contribute towards their care services. 

The ISPA project is an ambitious 5-year participatory mixed method study that will explore and understand how the stigma attached to where people live can intersect with experiences of disability and ageing. 

Your Community PK – one-stop shop for information and things to do to support your health and well-being in Perth and Kinross

The Scottish Disability Directory lets you search for different organisations within different local authorities in Scotland.

Euans Guide is an excellent resource – The disabled access reviews are written by disabled people for disabled people and include, shops, hotels, restaurants, parks and other attractions. You can read the reviews or rate your experiences in these or new places.

The UK Cinema Association (UKCA) and its members want to make visiting the cinema an inclusive and enjoyable experience for all. We fully appreciate that some disabled people face barriers at the cinema as a result of the effect of their disability. We are working hard to identify and remove these barriers.

AccessAble is here to take the chance out of going out. To give you the accessibility information you need to work out if a place is going to be accessible for you. We’ve surveyed 10,000s of venues across the UK and Ireland, including shops, pubs, restaurants, cinemas, theatres, railway stations, hotels, colleges, universities, hospitals and more. Use AccessAble to find wheelchair friendly venues or check out disabled access and facilities. AccessAble is Your Accessibility Guide. Download our free App to use AccessAble on the go.

JELS – The Joint Equipment Loan Service (JELS) provides a priority-driven delivery, fitting and collection service throughout Perth & Kinross; supplying equipment to meet the assessed needs of service users with physical disabilities, and acute and chronic illness.

Community Alarms – The user is provided a base unit which has a button on it that can be pressed to call for assistance. You will also receive a pendant that you can wear and it has a similar button on it. When one of the buttons is pressed, the Control Centre is automatically contacted by phone. The base unit has a loudspeaker and a strong microphone on it so you and the Control Centre can speak to one another.  

Access Team – Early intervention and prevention team/ Access Team – Our Early Intervention and Prevention Team is now the first point of contact for people who need access to health and social care services.

Social Medical Model – The model says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference. Barriers can be physical, like buildings not having accessible toilets. Or they can be caused by people’s attitudes to difference, like assuming disabled people can’t do certain things.

The Service Navigator is an interactive map of services provided by local charities, social enterprises and community groups.
The Service Navigator allows you to search for services by category and region, and you can learn more about each service by clicking its point on the map.