Guidance Library

Explanation of what the word "walking" means

Accommodation in a care home or residential school is ‘alternative accommodation’.

An individual in receipt of Child Disability Payment under special rules for terminal illness will not need to apply for Adult Disability Payment.

Child Disability Payment

Child Disability Payment

Guidance can be provided by directing or leading someone by physical means or verbal suggestion or persuasion. Supervision is the precautionary or anticipatory presence of another person to monitor an individual’s physical, mental or emotional health.

How to establish who should act on the child's behalf.

Child Disability Payment

‘Substantial’ should be given its ordinary, everyday meaning. Substantial danger could result from a fall, exposure, or neglect.

A person needs to be practicably able to act for the child as well as having the legal authority.

What the date of application is, and what happens when someone applies before they meet the backwards test.