What the buyer wrote
Section 17A of the Children’s Act 1989, inserted by the Health and Social Care Act 2001, gave councils a duty to offer Direct Payments for children’s services. In making Direct Payments under section 17A of the 1989 Act, councils are subject to the general duty provided by Part 3 of that Act to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in need, and to promote their upbringing by their families when making these payments, in exactly the same way as when providing direct services. The power to make Direct Payments to people with parental responsibility for disabled children and to disabled 16 and 17-year-olds was created by the Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000. If the Local Authority …
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Direct Payment Support Services
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Lots
- 2
- Where
- in the North West
- Kind of work
- Health and social care
Who the buyer named
Clare Redpath was the named contact on this notice.