idance requires councils to inform carers of their right to an assessment which takes into account their outside interests (work, study, leisure) and provide services to them directly and/or support carers by providing them with a direct payment to enable them to purchase carers' services for themselves. 6.18. Where it is likely that a young person leaving care will need services into adulthood, an adult services worker should contribute to pathway planning from age 16 onwards, and the change of lead worker from one service to the other should be determined within the planning process taking account of the young person’s wishes and assessed needs. 6.19. Where disabled and vulnerable care leavers transfer to, and become the responsibility of, Adult Care Services, local authorities’ leaving care teams and PAs should ensure that young people do not lose out on any leaving care entitlements. Care leavers should not be disadvantaged financially by transferring to a different service. Pathway plans and transition plans should be used to evidence young people’s financial abilities and to provide a financial framework that sets out the allowances and benefits young people are entitled to, and who will assist them to manage these allowances and benefits. (b) Unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) 6.20. Unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) making the transition from care to adulthood have both a leaving care status and an immigration status in addition to their placement and accommodation, education, health, financial, religious and cultural needs. Planning transition to adulthood for UASC is a particularly complex process that needs to address the young people’s care needs in the context of wider asylum and immigration legislation and how these needs change over ti