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The Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021

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20.—(1) This regulation applies where an individual is resident in a care home or in legal detention on the day on which entitlement to Child Disability Payment begins.

(2) On and after that day, and for so long as the individual continues to reside in a care, or be in legal detention, the value of the care component of Child Disability Payment that is to be given to the individual is £0 instead of the values set out in regulation 23 (amount and form of Child Disability Payment).

(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply where the costs of any qualifying services whilst resident in a care home are met—

(a)entirely out of the resources of the individual for whom the qualifying services are provided,

(b)partly out of the resources of the individual for whom the qualifying services are provided and partly out of the resources of another person (other than a local authority) or assistance from a charity, or

(c)entirely out of the resources of another person (other than a local authority) or assistance from a charity.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation an individual is not resident in a care home during any period when the individual is being looked after by a local authority and—

(a)has been placed temporarily in a private dwelling with a family, relative or some other suitable person while—

(i)under the age of 16,

(ii)aged between 16 and 18 and receiving services under Part II of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 by virtue of being a child in need within the meaning of section 93(4)(a)(ii) (impairment of health), or 93(4)(a)(iii) (disability) of that Act, or

(b)is accommodated in a care home outside the United Kingdom, where the costs of any qualifying services are met by a local authority exercising its powers under section 25 of the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004.

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