Posted By Alan Haynes Can't Dorgard supply you with a list of 'users' in your area?

Posted By Paul Durkin Hi Joe, We use these at many of our Kent County Council residential/respite homes without any adverse comment(as far as I am aware) I will check with colleagues.But as we are a three star authority, doubt we have had problems, but will check. Regards, Paul

Posted By Nigel Hammond I work for MacIntyre, a national charity that provides residential homes and other services for people with learning disabilities. I find that fire brigade people don't like dorgard but have yet to give me a convicing reaseon not to use them. Buckingham simply say it's their policy to advise against them - but if you push them, their reasons against are that they can get knocked by wheel chairs. Most of the people we support do not use wheel chairs! They also don't seem to trust organisations to have systems for regalar checks on the battery condition. There is also a delay between the alarm going off and the dorgard reacting - if my memory serves me correct this is up to about 30 seconds. We also have homes in Powys, Kent, Essex, Southampton, Shropshire, Bedfordshire, Eastleigh, Leicestershire, Worcester, Oxfordshire, Cheshire, The Wirrel and Manchester. In most of these cases we get away with using dorgards but I gather - justified within risk assessments - but usually not in 'high risk areas such as kitchens and laundry rooms.