Disabled people in the #RBG who are on Direct Payments should have recieved a letter allowing and stating names of Key workers (PAs and Carers) to travel to provide essential services for the disabled and vulnerable Individual’s (with photo identity). If you have not, contact your direct payments office. Directpayments@royalgreenwich.gov.uk
For those disabled people who need Personal Protective Equipment – requests for PPE – as appropriate PPE should be used and then disposed of, the council said that they do have stocks and ask that if you require further then please complete and return the attached form to ppe@royalgreenwich.gov.uk
PPE – DP sERVICE USER REQUEST FORM
Get coronavirus support as a clinically extremely vulnerable person
Here is link to register if you have a medical condition which makes you extremely vulnerable to coronavirus (COVID-19), – register and tell us whether or not you need support.
You may have received a letter from the NHS telling you that you’re clinically extremely vulnerable, or been contacted by your GP or hospital clinician. If this has not happened, contact your GP or clinician after you register with this service.
It may take time for any support offered through this service to arrive. Wherever possible you should continue to rely on friends, family and wider support to help you meet your needs.
You can register yourself, or on behalf of someone else.
https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-extremely-vulnerable
please also read Chris Fry from Fry Law
I understand that Supermarkets need a hand in working out who their disabled customers are, in order to make long overdue reasonable adjustments for them. But this is not the solution. There are 14 Million disabled people in the UK, qualifying for reasonable adjustments of one sort or another, but this register will only assist an anticipated 10% of disabled people.
So not only is this a data breach, it doesn’t help the majority of disabled people trying to access supermarket services. It potentially allows Supermarkets to believe that it only has to help people on the register – which puts them in breach of the Equality Act 2010 obligations to make reasonable adjustments. We will provide letters to assist in challenging supermarkets later today!
Finally, is Government happy to flag you as a vulnerable person to allow people you don’t know, and who may not be DBS checked to know where you live and what your disabilities are??
Greenwich DPAC 