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Short Breaks Blog
See what’s new with Hackney’s Short Breaks service including activity reviews & recommendations.
IB Prepaid Card – 2nd payment
Prepaid card news! The Short Breaks Team will be raising your 2nd payment to go onto your prepaid card during the month of October. This will automatically go onto your card if; -You have spent your 1st payment or have less than £100 left -You have used it appropriately i.e. to pay for daytime social/leisure…
NEWS: Pre paid cards
Do you use a Short Breaks Pre paid card? If your card expired in August, you should now have received your new one. If you have NOT, please contact the team on 020 8356 6796. You will need to re register your new card on the Cardholder portal. For any issue please contact PFS customer…
IB Pre paid cards Expiring
Do you have a pre paid card with an expiry date of August 2019? If so you don’t need to worry, a new card is on its way to you and will arrive at your home address before the end of August. If you have recently changed your address and have not informed…
Parent/Carer needed for Short Breaks Tender Provider Presentations
Dear Parents / Carers, The Council are currently undertaking a procurement exercise for the Provision of Short Breaks for Disabled Children and Young People in Hackney. The Council has now short-listed potential providers for the presentation stage of the procurement process. The Council would like to invite one parent/carer to attend the presentation sessions on Tuesday…
New Short Breaks offer 2019/20
The Short Breaks offer from 1st April 2019 – 31st March 2020 will be the following; -110 hours to be used flexibly at your chosen Provider -55 hours to use flexibly at your chosen Provider if you receive a care package with Social activities -If you access your short breaks via Individual Budget (IB) Pre paid card, you…
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