Special Needs Jungle: What the Personal Wheelchair Budget means for disabled people in England

If you or your child uses a wheelchair, you will know how expensive it can be to try to get a wheelchair that is a little more useful than a standard NHS wheelchair. Often families have to rely on help from charities to access a suitable powered chair that will enable them to have any independence of mobility.

There are 70,000 disabled children who are in need of wheelchairs or specialist pushchairs in England, and today there is a new law that will replace wheelchair vouchers with Personal Wheelchair Budgets (PWB).

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