Concessionary travel passes

Dear Mr Eriksohn,

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, received by the Council on the 30 January 2009.

I will liaise with the appropriate officers at Carrick District Council
in respect of your request and hope to be in a position to return to you
in due course.

Due to the nature of your request it may be appropriate for the Council
to charge a fee. If this is the case then you will be advised of the
amount of any charge prior to the information being released.

Please acknowledge receipt of this e-mail.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Andrews.
Senior Solicitor.

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For the attention of: Robert Eriksohn

I refer to your FOI enquiry of 29^th January 2009.

This Council is a member of the Cornwall Concessionary Fares Partnership
and it relies on the Cornwall County Council's responsibility within the
Partnership to administer and deliver the arrangements across Cornwall on
behalf of the six Cornish District Councils (The TCAs).

I have ascertained the following response to your questions from the
Cornwall County Council as a representative answer to the arrangements
applying within the Carrick area.

(1) The Cornwall Concessionary Fares Partnership does not recognise the
term "mental health user or survivor".

However, whatever its exact meaning, there are only two categories of
passholder entitlement that involve mental health. The first is the
learning disability category. In this case the Partnership interpretation
of "learning disability" is as the Department of Transport Guidance to
Local Authorities. The given definition of learning disability in the
guidance is "a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which
includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning"
and, as a generality for all categories of entitlement, "which has a
substantial effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day to day
activities". The second category dealing with mental health is to do with
"people who would be refused a driving licence on medical grounds", one
category of which is a person "with a severe mental disorder" The
Partnership has no different local interpretation on entitlement.

(2) In the light of (1) above, this is not applicable.

(3) No.

(4) The Partnership has seen no compelling reason to cause them to deviate
from the Department of Transport definitions above. There are no plans to
do anything different for the future.

(5) As the policy is completely in line with Department of Transport
guidelines, there is no other policy document.

Regards

Peter Hodge

Financial Services Manager

Carrick District Council

Tel: 01872 224430

Fax: 01872 262279

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