Adult disabled daycare travel class who pays

[Midsmum1]

Can anyone help that knows answers to this please or maybe experienced this.

Basically, my nephew has moderate learning disabilities. He has just turned 19. He is leaving education in July to go to a daycare sort of facility for adults with learning issues very similar to education not paid just a better setting for helping them learn around animals arts and crafts etc. This facility is a little bit away from where he lives he has a mobility car. His mum doesn’t drive. My nephew can’t drive because he’s too disabled and his dad can drive but can’t do the daycare driving him to and from because he’s at work. My nephew will have to claim his own universal credits and pip go directly to himself now as he’s 19 but my sister will have full care over the money because he doesn’t have the mental capacity. What happens with the cost or transportation to get him to the daycare facility because he has a mobility car does that rule out any transportation help or costs due to him having a mobility car is down to them to get him there? Or due to him still having low income, he could still get transportation a taxi or something? If you can’t get any help because of mobility car if the mobility car was sent back would he then be entitled to taxis? Obviously there’s no one to drive the car to get him to the daycare facility but taxi costs are looking about £60 a day and I think his income would be about £600 PIP and about £550 universal credit so obviously it doesn’t add up how we can pay for all of his Taxi because he wouldn’t have enough and he wouldn’t have no money for living costs as well as anyone gone through this and can help at all

If the placement is an education placement via the EHCP, see the IPSEA link others have posted.

If the placement is via adult social care, it comes under separate legislation, read the link I posted in my first post on the thread. The LA is responsible for meeting all eligible needs, that includes transport. Although there may be a financial contribution following a financial assessment it will not be the amount you are posting it will cost.

Now he has left “education” he won’t have a ehcp no more

Ok, have you established this for certain? As earlier you said you were sure he does have one. Is this new placement not an educational placement?

He 100% has a ehcp but as he is leaving education to go adult day care the ehcp ends when he leaves school in July

Have DN’s parents considered appealing the LA’s cease to maintain notice (if the LA has already issued it - they may have, they may not have. LAs don’t always follow the correct procedure for ceasing EHCPs.)? Any cease to maintain appeal for 19 year old with MLD would succeed. The scope of education is wider than many realise. It doesn’t just mean traditional education and it doesn’t have to mean working towards qualifications. Social care provision that educates or trains is deemed to be special educational provision.

Yes this.

I would recommend that his parents challenge the decision to cease the EHCP.

I don’t think they knew that they could appeal

Well they can, and they need to do it pretty much now before it actually ceases. Find out when the decision to cease was made.

If the LA is going to cease the EHCP, they will be able to appeal. They might be able to do that now. They might not be able to yet but will be able to in the future. It depends if the LA has formally issued the decision notice yet. If they appeal, the EHCP must be maintained until the conclusion of the appeal. If they don’t appeal, the EHCP will cease when the right of appeal lapses.

I suggest DN’s parents look at IPSEA and SOSSEN’s websites.

She said she was told she can’t have a ehcp plan as he won’t be in education.

As I posted, the scope of education is wider than many realise. It doesn’t just mean traditional education and it doesn’t have to mean working towards qualifications. Social care provision that educates or trains is deemed to be special educational provision. It also doesn’t have to be provided in a school or college. It can be provided otherwise than in school/college.