Could my child get disability badge or queue jumping card?

mharding
mharding Online Community Member Posts: 1 Listener
edited November 2022 in Families and carers
If your child has hyper mobility and flat foot syndrome and suffers with real bad leg pain. Can they get disability badge or queue jumping card. 

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  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    Welcome to the community @mharding :) Thank you for joining us!

    Could I just check what you mean by "disability badge" and "queue jumping card"? 
  • cornishmummy
    cornishmummy Scope Member Posts: 28 Connected
    Their is a card which can be used to get children in to places without queuing . 
    This card is called an “Access Card “ . 

  • alyssajade230
    alyssajade230 Scope Member Posts: 21 Connected
    Their is a card which can be used to get children in to places without queuing . 
    This card is called an “Access Card “ . 


    I have an access card due to hypermobile eds and other issues. Its not an easy card to get. Do you have medical paperwork stating your child cannot queue due to hypermobility/pain? This would be useful as they won't be able to award the queueing symbol on the access card without some form of evidence as to why its needed. Also just to note it doesn't necessarily mean you can queue jump but it does mean if you were to take your child on a day out to somewhere like Thorpe Park for example, you would be able to link the access card to merlin's system and get a "ride access pass" where your child could essentially use the exit or accessible entrance to rides and then they will write down a time on your card when you can next use the accessible entrance for a ride. The following is only an example to show how it works: if you and your child used the accessible queue for Stealth at thorpe park and lets say it was 11.00 Am, the advertised main queue length was 60 minutes, they would typically write "12.00pm" on the card which would be the next time you could get on a ride. In that 60 minutes you could do anything e.g. get food, rest on the grass, sit and wait pretty much anything within the park so it could allow your child to spend less time physically queueing and standiing and therefore cause less pain as they could essentially sit whilst waiting for the time to pass. Access card can also award different symbols relating to different areas of need but these all need to be evidenced. Can also be useful for other venues such as museums, theatres, even primark queue's if your local primark are aware of the card.