"This activity considers a claimant’s ability to plan and follow the route of a journey. As with all the other
activities, a claimant is to be assessed as satisfying a descriptor only if the reliability criteria are also
considered. The claimant must be able to undertake the activity:

• safely (in a manner unlikely to cause harm to the claimant or to another, either during or after completion of the activity);
• to an acceptable standard;
• repeatedly (as often as the activity being assessed is reasonably required to be completed); and
• within a reasonable time period (no more than twice as long as the maximum period that a person without a physical or mental condition which limits that person’s ability to carry out the activity in question would normally take to complete that activity).

Notes:
This activity was designed to assess the barriers claimants may face that are associated with mental,
cognitive or sensory ability.
Journey means a local journey, whether familiar or unfamiliar.
Environmental factors may be considered if they prevent the claimant from reliably completing a journey,
for example being unable to cope with crowds or loud noises."







Last updated October 2015