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Community care > Direct payments
Home Care: using Direct Payments (459kb)
Information about the Direct Payments System & how payments can be received. Direct Payments is money provided to people with high care needs, by Social Services, so that those people can choose & purchase care services to meet their assessed needs. This is instead of Social Services arranging and purchasing the services.
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