Direct Payments and commissioned care

[Happyasahedgehog]

DD has direct payments. Can she also used other commissioned care/services? Social worker is telling us that everything she wants to access has to come out of her direct payments, DD has been offered one day per week placement at a community farm for teenagers with learning disabilities.
So can we have a mix of direct payments and commissioned care?

[LargeLegoHaul]

A personal budget can be delivered in a combination of ways, but obviously if that was the case the DPs would reduce.

Is the provision at the farm social care provision or should it be educational provision?

[Happyasahedgehog]

It is in her social care plan, so social provision. It is also included in her EHCP as it provides work experience.

[LargeLegoHaul]

It sounds like it should be in section F of the EHCP therefore educational provision and outwith social care DPs.