Direct payments for disabled children and young people

To get direct payments, you must:

• live in Lambeth with the disabled child or young person
• have an assessment of your needs and the child or young person’s needs, completed by a social care worker
• be able to manage a direct payment with or without help
• be parent or carer of a disabled child or young person.

Alternatively, you must:

• be a disabled young person aged 16 and over, living in Lambeth 
• have had an assessment of your needs done by a social care worker
• be able to manage direct payments on your own or with help.