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Claire's spinal injury means she isn't able to help Emilia into a stairlift and so, in July 2022, the family - who are Housing Association tenants - were assessed as requiring an extension for a downstairs bedroom and shower room.

Mia’s block of flats has no lift, and a request to install a stairlift has been delayed for months as the housing association questions whether it would be a fire hazard.

It means she has been unable to fund a stairlift.

A disabled woman has won damages after her local authority took almost a year to decide on an application for a stairlift in her home.

The rising costs of living means plans for a stairlift for her disabled daughter have been put on hold, as it would have cost thousands of pounds.