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Sonia (Soc), a passport or driving licence is only required if you have one. The blue badge people can access the gov. files to retrieve the photo. If you have not got one, all that's needed is a passport booth type photo if your Tesco has one. The rules are quite exacting e.g. no smiling, position must be facing forward, just head and shoulders etc.. If completing the blue badge form on-line, the booth photo can be scanned, or if you or your son are confident with a smartphone I believe there's an option for the booth to ping one to your phone to save the fiddling about scanning. I agree with you and Gill though. The forms are crammed full with questions that do not apply and often it's difficult to know what sort of answer they are after. Others seem to asking the same thing in a different way. I think those are there to trip up budding fraudsters but they certainly don't help if you are elderly, disabled and unused to on-line tech which times you out if you are slow to answer ... then you have to start again unless that aspect has been improved. It took me about 2 hours the first time. Since then, I've used similar wording (as applicable) when it comes to renewal time i.e. I save my answers to the more detailed questions. So far, I have not bothered to save my name and date of birth. On a good day I can remember both within a few minutes after a cup of tea 
. These things are sent to try us...as if we needed anything else!!! Ray xxx
Oh, that’s good you’ve got some help arranged for tomorrow to get it sorted. I did have a passport, but obviously not a driving licence. A birth certificate is ok, proof of address (I provided my council tax letter) and proof I received PIP.
These things can be really difficult to get sorted but I found the council issued me with my badge within about 10 days when I got it first time and then renewed it.
It must be in your name as you said, but it’s fine for you to use it in any car driven by your son. What a difference it’s made to me and I hope you get yours soon.
Sarah xx
No, Soc. it must always be in the disabled person’s name because it’s your badge. Then you can use it in any car you’re being driven in. Could be your son’s car with him driving, or if you’re with a friend who is doing the driving in their car.
The badge isn’t tied to a car or driver, just the disabled person.
Sarah xx
