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Help if you are receiving direct payments
Support and information is available to help you manage your direct payments.
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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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Direct Payments - ending your Direct Payments
If your Direct Payments are to end, your social worker or care coordinator will need to be told. They will then inform the Direct Payments Team of the date that...
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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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Councillors to consider changes to community engagement arrangements
Proposed changes to the way in which we work with residents, communities, councillors, and partners will be considered next week.