Direct Payments contract moves to corporate supplier

From April 2025, We Are Beams will no longer hold the Kent County Council contract to support 1100 parents with a disabled child living in Kent with their Direct Payments.

The award winning charity has held the contract for 17 years with excellent feedback from parents and families for their customer care, and holistic support.

The charity CEO Katrina Adams said “We are devastated to be losing this contract and we hope the new supplier, which is not a charity, will support the parents in every way possible. Beams linked up parents to other services and offered help to all family members. Everything we do has the disabled child at the heart of it. It is evident that the cost of our bid for the contract was a determining factor. Our concerns are for the families. This is a big change for them at an already difficult time. We are still here for all families if we are needed to support them with our other five services”.

Families can click here to see the full range of services offered.