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Disabled children - short breaks Duty
- Description
- Every local authority shall provide services designed to assist individuals who provide care for such children to continue to do so, or to do so more effectively, by giving them breaks from caring.
The authority should:
give families the choice to access short breaks services using a direct payment;
• publish a statement of their short breaks services on their website;
• keep their short breaks statement under review;
- Modified
- 19 Mar 2024
- Status
- Live
- is found in the following lists
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- requires
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