How you can use direct payments
You can use your direct payments for:
- personal care
- overnight or daytime short breaks
- support to access leisure or community activities
- a combination of these.
You can't use your direct payments for:
- buying services from us or any other local authority
- employing someone who lives with you
- paying for health care services, including equipment that the NHS provides, such as vaccination or immunisation, health screening, NHS health checks, or, services that are provided by your GP, prescriptions and dental charges
- equipment and adaptations available through the Disabled Facilities Grant
- long-term residential care
- residential education
- any services that are not part of your child’s assessed needs
- household expenses
- paying for childcare so that a parent or carer can work.