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DUNDEE DIRECT PAYMENTS SUPPORT SERVICE<br />
What is a Direct Payment Support Service?<br />
The purpose <strong>of</strong> a Direct Payment Support Service is to ensure that adequate advice,<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>and</strong> support are available to disabled people so that they may feel confident to<br />
undertake the complexities <strong>of</strong> using direct payments to employ <strong>and</strong> manage their own staff.<br />
• What support can the <strong>Dundee</strong> Direct Payments Support Service Offer?<br />
• Initial visit (prior to community care assessment if required.<br />
• General advice <strong>and</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation regarding direct payments.<br />
• Support setting up <strong>and</strong> managing the direct payment.<br />
• Initial assistance <strong>with</strong> financial monitoring <strong>for</strong>ms.<br />
• Assistance <strong>with</strong> administration <strong>and</strong> record keeping.<br />
• Assistance <strong>with</strong> recruitment (advertising, interviewing etc).<br />
• Assistance drawing up a job description.<br />
• Sample contracts <strong>of</strong> employment.<br />
• Good employment practice.<br />
• Legal responsibilities.<br />
• Peer support.<br />
• Training e.g. employment law, health <strong>and</strong> safety, managing staff.<br />
• Advice on employer/employee relationships.<br />
• Day to day queries.<br />
A payroll service which includes:<br />
• Registration <strong>with</strong> Inl<strong>and</strong> Revenue.<br />
• Calculation <strong>of</strong> time sheets.<br />
• Provision <strong>of</strong> payslips.<br />
• Calculation <strong>for</strong> monthly/quarterly Collector <strong>of</strong> Taxes payments.<br />
• Provision <strong>of</strong> statutory <strong>for</strong>ms <strong>and</strong> end <strong>of</strong> year returns.<br />
• Day to day queries.<br />
The support service <strong>for</strong> direct payment recipients in <strong>Dundee</strong> is as follows:<br />
T: 01382 200422<br />
Venessa Dallas-Ross (Direct Payments Advisor)<br />
<strong>Dundee</strong> Direct Payments Support Service<br />
Princess Royal Trust Centre,<br />
1st Floor, Argyll House,<br />
West Marketgait,<br />
<strong>Dundee</strong> DD1 1QP<br />
E: vanessa.dallas-ross@dundeecarerscentre.org.uk<br />
e-mail: centre@dundee.carers.net<br />
<strong>In<strong>for</strong>mation</strong> Pack – <strong>Children</strong>’s Services 47