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Called to account
- Author:
- SONE Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.6.97, 1997, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how people with learning difficulties are often denied access to their own money and the right to decide how it is spent.
Direct payments are not a mystery
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 4(1), September 1997, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Discusses how some authorities are regarding the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act as if it is introducing a totally alien concept. The author calls on local authorities to make use of the experience gained and to give people with learning difficulties the assistance they need in making their views and wishes known over direct payments.
Family fortunes
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.1.97, 1997, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
People with learning difficulties have a better chance of finding out what services and benefits are on offer, thanks to a new MENCAP family advice scheme.
Incapacity benefits and the All Work Test: a hands-on guide
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Andy
- Publisher:
- Kent County Council. Social Sevices Department
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 63p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Gravesend
Guide aiming to demystify the All Work Test process, the new assessment system determining whether people whose GP says they are unable to work can continue to receive benefit. Includes sections on: exempt conditions; potentially exempt diagnoses; the All Work Test; the IB 50 questionnaire; mental health problems (including learning difficulties); the medical examination; exceptional circumstances; failing and passing the test; and statistical information.
Direct payments for people with learning difficulties: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 came into force on 1 April 1997. It empowers local authorities to make cash payments to people with disabilities, including learning difficulties, for the purchase of their community care arrangements. People with learning difficulties and their supporters are already recognising the potential benefits, but few preparations have yet been made, according to recent research undertaken for Values Into Action by the authors. Describes the findings of the study, which interviewed people with learning difficulties, support schemes and local authorities.
Social services law: judicial review, financial resources and legitimate expectations
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 2(3), July 1997, pp.23-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In the context of a recent judicial review case, the Court of Appeal has delivered, on the one hand, a powerful weapon for people with disabilities who need social services, but, on the other, managerial implications which are bound to be keeping budget holders awake at night. The final outcome of the case - due for hearing before the Lords at some point in the next year - may well have wider implications for changes to social services legislation generally. Considers the significance of this case for local authorities, practitioners and users of community care services. Goes on to look at the interplay between the concept of statutory discretion and the emergent legal doctrine of substantive legitimate expectation, and its significance for social service attitudes and practice is articulated.
Money matters: helping people with learning difficulties have more control over their money
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 121p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Relates the experiences of people with learning difficulties in relation to handling their own money and relates these to current legal and technical frameworks. Makes recommendations for major changes in legal practice and benefits regulations, and in the practice of services, families and people themselves.
M.A.P.: more access please; the right track
- Authors:
- ORPWOOD Jenny, DAVIS Clare
- Publisher:
- Change
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 1v.,looseleaf.
- Place of publication:
- London
Information pack written for people with learning difficulties and those who work with them. Includes sections on: general information (including the Disability Discrimination Act, training, advocacy, communication, independent living, travel and transport, benefits, and making meetings accessible); deaf issues (including deaf culture, hearing difficulties, hearing tests, hearing aids, talking to deaf people; sympathetic hearing scheme; loop systems, alarms, communication, sign language interpreters, relay interpreters, using telephones, hearing dogs for deaf people, and subtitles); blind issues (including sight tests, tips when meeting a blind person, communication, reading, writing and listening, environment, white canes, and guide dogs); and information about deaf blind issues.
Supported employment, people and money
- Author:
- CORDEN Anne
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 51p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Reviews the literature and research about the financial aspects of a move to supported employment, where disabled people may earn an ordinary wage, and lose their entitlement to benefits and free services.
Funding freedom: a guide to direct payments for people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- HOLMAN Andrew, COLLINS Jean
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 85p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report aiming to: encourage people with learning difficulties to use Direct Payments and to suggest ways in which they may be used by people who might otherwise be thought unable to take advantage of them. Also: discusses how Direct Payments can be used flexibly to the best advantage of individuals with learning difficulties, including the option of using Direct Payments for one or more parts of a person's complete care package; identifies the safeguards needed by support schemes, such as Trust Funds, Service Brokerage, and Personal Assistance Schemes, to protect the best interests of people with learning difficulties; and identifies the systems and safeguards needed by Local Authorities to ensure that public money is properly spent in the service of people with learning difficulties.