The Community Care, Services for Carers and Children’s Services (Direct Payments) (England) Regulations 2009 No. 1887

Prescribed descriptions of persons under section 17A(1) of the 1989 Act – children’s services

4.  For the purposes of section 17A(1) of the 1989 Act a person is of a prescribed description if they are—

(a) a person who appears to the responsible authority to be capable of managing a direct payment by themselves or with such assistance as may be available to them; and

(b) not a person to whom Schedule 1 applies.