Direct Payment Support Services

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    "description": "Section 17A of the Children\u0027s Act 1989, inserted by the Health and Social Care Act 2001, gave councils a duty to offer Direct Payments for children\u0027s services. In making Direct Payments under section 17A of the 1989 Act, councils are subject to the general duty provided by Part 3 of that Act to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in need, and to promote their upbringing by their families when making these payments, in exactly the same way as when providing direct services. The power to make Direct Payments to people with parental responsibility for disabled children and to disabled 16 and 17-year-olds was created by the Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000.\r\nIf the Local Authority assesses a child or young person requires support to meet identified needs, these needs will be identified on a plan along with an identification of the services that can meet these needs.\r\nIf families do not want to use services directly provided or commissioned by the Authority, they have the option of receiving the support by Direct Payments instead.\r\nA Direct Payment affords a family the flexibility to look beyond \u0027off-the-peg\u0027 service solutions provided by the Authority and choose from a range of alternative employment, education and leisure activities to meet their child\u0027s assessed needs. In many cases, the Direct Payment is used to employ a personal assistant to enable a child to access these activities.\r\n",
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