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Auditing your Direct Payments
As a condition of receiving Direct Payments, the Direct Payments Team will carry out audits of your Direct Payments account to ensure funding is being used as a...
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Direct Payments and paying your client contribution
Following a financial assessment, you may have been asked to pay a contribution towards the cost of your care and support.
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Direct Payments and self-employed workers
If the person you choose to provide your care tells you that they are self-employed, you should ask them to check their status with HM Revenue and Customs.
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Choice of residential care and third party top-ups
Find out about your rights to choose where you want to live and what you will have to do if you wish to choose residential care.
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Direct payments - you are a personal assistant (PA)
If you become a personal assistant for someone receiving direct payments they become your employer.
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Resolving disagreements (special educational needs and disabilities)
All councils must make sure that parents and young people have access to independent disagreement resolution services.
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Durham City and Old Durham Footbridge Temporary Footpath and Footbridge Closure Order 2013
Find out about the Durham City and Old Durham Footbridge Temporary Footpath and Footbridge Closure Order 2013
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SEND Tribunal
The First-tier Tribunal (also known as the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal) is the court which decides appeals made against decisions made by ...
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Councillors' allowances
We are required by law to publish the sum paid to each county councillor.
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Community arts projects and commissions
We develop bespoke projects and artist commissions, responding to relevant events, anniversaries or demand. This page showcases some of the current and most rec...