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12 July 2025
Child Disability Payment
Guidance or SupervisionGuidance 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.
Guidance
12 July 2025
Child Disability Payment
Change of circumstances: change in mobility or care needsGuidance
12 July 2025
Child Disability Payment
Attention with bodily functionsAttention with bodily functions means providing personal care.
Guidance
12 July 2025
Child Disability Payment
Rates of the care componentAn individual’s needs determine what criteria they meet and the rate of CDP they are entitled to.
Guidance
12 July 2025
Child Disability Payment
The Effects of Fear and Anxiety on Moving around OutdoorsIndividuals who cannot move around outdoors because of fear and anxiety are entitled to lower rate of the mobility component, if the fear and anxiety is caused by a mental disability.
Guidance
12 July 2025
Child Disability Payment
Examples of typical changes in mobility or care needsThere are various reasons why changes in the level of the individual’s need could lead to an unscheduled review.
Guidance
12 July 2025
Child Disability Payment
Continual supervisionSupervision means the precautionary or anticipatory presence of another person to monitor an individual’s physical, mental or emotional health.
Guidance
12 July 2025
Child Disability Payment
Check the applicant is responsible for the childFind out how to check the applicant has parental rights and responsibilities for the child they applied for.
Guidance
12 July 2025
Child Disability Payment
Criteria of the care componentAn individual is entitled to the care component of CDP for the period throughout which they satisfy at least one of the criteria set out for each rate. The exception to this is the highest rate which requires both criteria to be met.
Guidance
12 July 2025
Child Disability Payment
Hospitals, Residential Settings and Legal DetentionEntitlement to payment of the mobility component of CDP continues when an individual entitled to CDP enters alternative accommodation.
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