That’s good news. There’s nothing wrong with pre-payment cards if that’s what a particular service user wants. But Perth and Kinross MAY NOT force them on people as a blanket policy. Social workers MUST (section 9 of 2013 Act) explain what a DP is to service users, but it seems this often does not happen, and indeed some social workers may not even understand what it is themselves. My social worker was a case in point, even though she is an excellent social worker in general.
Hi Josh could you advise me on this I’m actually moving my daughters direct payment from her account back to the allpay card today which was put in to prepaid card account in my name by sw and they knew at various meetings my reasons for direct payment was due to them holding my daughter’s needs back and not realising funds in time for agreed outcomes I when they asked why I moved the funds to a account of my choice the funds have not been touched due to the paperwork being wrong and also sent them back statements showing the funds in my daughters saving accounts they have not made this months payment into the alloay account either i will put the funds today back into their managed account which clearly means we aren’t in direct oayment but all emails correspondence states direct payment until I get all information to take this further we have a new sw so she clearly hasnt been informed on what was agreed due to them constantly failing
Thanks so much for all the information you have posted it’s helped me a lot
Hi Michelle
I will certainly have a think about the issues you raise and respond. I have to be a bit careful about giving ‘advice’, in case I give bad advice which you rely on and it all goes horribly wrong and then it’s my fault! I’ve gone a bit close to crossing that line once or twice so I need to be a bit more disciplined, no matter how annoyed I am about Local Authorities acting unlawfully and how much I want to help people fight. However that doesn’t mean we can’t speak about the law and practice in general. I’ll get back to your posts as soon as I can, I’m a bit snowed under at the moment. Might take me a few days.
Josh