Children’s Seats and Harnesses – Drive Ability North West

A free service to help your family get out and about.

Being able to get out and about is an essential part of family life.

Working with Windmill Special Needs, we offer car seat and harness assessments for children with a range of disabilities, or who have challenging behaviours.

During the assessment our Occupational Therapists will find out more about your child’s and your family’s needs – and we’ll recommend which car seat most suits you, including if it’s compatible with your vehicle.

If you’re concerned that an assessment may be difficult for your child, please don’t be. We’ll make the whole experience as easy as possible for you all.

What will happen on the day?

Our Occupational Therapists will conduct an assessment and provide you with a report which will help you to choose the car seat or harness that most meets your needs.

Please note we are unable to provide car seats or harnesses as part of our service.

How can I use the service for my child?

We accept referrals from health professionals, such as Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Health Visitors or GPs.

If you’d like to use our service, simply ask yours to refer you, or call us for advice on 0300 300 1100.

I’m a professional wishing to refer a patient

Please fill in our online referral form at the bottom of this page.

“The staff were fantastic, the experience was easy and I was very well informed.”

Drive Ability North West service user

Child Car Seat Application Form

Currently, we can only accept referrals for children’s car seat harness assessment/support from a health care professional, please use the form below:

Child's title: *-MrMissOther

Child's name: *

Child's date of birth (DOB): *

Child's weight: *

Child's height: *

Accompanying adult's relationship to child: *

Accompanying adult's title: *-MrMissMrsMsOther

Accompanying adult's name: *

Accompanying adult's telephone: *

Accompanying adult's email:

Accompanying adult's address: *

Individual's postcode: *

Please select the support, advice or service we can help you with:

• Children’s car seat
• Harness advice
• Other

If 'other' please state:

If the child has medical condition, please provide details:

Make and Model of current car seat used:

Reasons why it no longer meets yours or the child’s needs:

Do you need the car seat to be (please tick the relevant boxes):

• Front facing seat
• Rearward facing seat
• Interchangeable between cars
• To be fitted by more than one adult
• Child needs to be in the front seat
• Child needs to be in the rear seat

Any other people to be transported at the same time as the child (i.e. parents, siblings and ages) please provide details below:

Do you as a parent/carer experience any difficulties with moving and handling, if so please provide details::

Make and Model of current car:

Is your car:

• Privately Owned
• Leased through Motability

Referring professional’s title (if applicable):-MrMissMrsMsDrOther

Referring professional’s name and designation:

Referring professional’s email:

Referring professional’s telephone:

Referring professional’s address:

Referring professional’s postcode:

Trust/Hospital/Service:

Referring professional’s referral reason and any additional information:

Could you take a short notice appointment?-YesNo

If English is not your first language, do you require an interpreter?-YesNo

Privacy policy *

• I confirm that I have read and I consent to Bridgewater's privacy policy

Submit

Please note: If you want a copy of your referral please save your details before pressing submit. We are unable to send copies of the referral once submitted.

We will use your address to ensure that we are your closest Driving Mobility centre.

If there is a centre closer to you, you will be given the opportunity to select this one.