What is SDI and what do we do?

-    A free community care and disability information service for anyone living or working in the borough.
- Information provided for all ages and all disabilities
- Local and national information is collected and updated
- We produce factsheets on popular topics
- We write a regular newsletter on local and national disability issues and events
- Application forms kept for Blue Badges and Travel Permits
- Funder Finder database searches for help with financing
- We sell RADAR disabled toilet keys
- CRB disclosure checking service for organisations
- We maintain a second hand disability equipment website

What sort of information do we keep?

-    Aids and equipment, e.g. where to obtain walking aids, special chairs, bath aids, grab rails, dressing aids, kitchen equipment
- Community care, e.g. how to obtain a social worker or have an assessment by an occupational therapist
- Holidays, e.g. wheelchair accessible accommodation in the UK, activity holidays, cruises
- Support groups for carers and people with particular conditions
- Transport – what is available in Sutton
- Recreation and sport, e.g. social clubs for people with learning disabilities, wheelchair   sports
- Education and Employment, e.g. employment agencies for those with mental health            problems
- Accommodation, e.g. housing with support, care homes
- Discrimination, e.g. fair treatment by service providers, the Disability Discrimination Act.
- Factsheets on, equipment, benefits, funding, transport, employment, local providers of courses, holidays, taping & brailing services, discrimination, accessible leisure venues and hotels.