Posting here as there isn't much traffic on sen boards.
My teenager with severe disabilities and sen will be starting at a term time residential school later this year. He will not be considered a 'looked after child'.
I understand his care component of his high rate DLA will stop for the weeks he is in school. I'm trying to get accurate info on universal credit. I'm assuming this will stop for the periods he is in school but advice seems to vary as to whether I can claim this for the time he spends at home during school holidays and a couple of weekends a month. The two remaining weekends I will spend at the school with him looking after him in their setting.
Any advice would be really useful as I'm trying to work out the amount of extra money I need to earn once these benefits stop. Up to now I've worked 30 hours a week to fit in with school hours as a single mum.