We’ve got a couple more years to go but I was wondering how do you evidence for pip once they leave education and no longer have ehcp? Ds was diagnosed with asd at 6 and we were discharged on diagnosis, he has an ehcp and is in a specialist school where he has high levels of supervision etc. i work at the minute while he’s at school but I’m increasingly thinking he’s never going to be fully independent and I won’t be able to work once he no longer has school to attend. We currently don’t qualify for any social care help and our area no,longer do a social care assessment on reaching adulthood for all children on ehcps they only do if they are in receipt of s child social care package (I realise I may need to fight this). So my worry is that speaking to ds he can come across as quite articulate if he was to be assessed for example and an assessor think he’s capable of work (in an ideal world he will be able to work but as he’s getting closer and is not independent at all I’m having to think of alternative). At the minute for dla and blue badge I’ve not had an issue has we have overwhelming evidence from school/ehcp but once he leaves it’s just my word. I realise this is a long time in the future as he’s not even started on pip yet and they’ll be a period whilst he’s still in school and on pip as we’ll have evidence, and the system may well even change by the time he leaves school as there is likely to have been a change of government, but I really just wanted to get straight in my mind what other people with older “children” in our situation do now