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Dreams or expectations?
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 7(3), January 1994, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
In London, a service for someone with learning difficulties could cost as much as 70,000 pounds a year. Trust managers are beginning to scrutinise these costs. But rather than personalising this funding to meet people's rising expectations, purchasers are returning to bulk buying and standard regimes.
Funding freedom 2000: people with learning difficulties using direct payments
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 132p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes how people with learning difficulties can be supported to access and use Direct Payments, and how potential problems and pitfalls can be circumvented. Begins with a section aimed at people with learning difficulties themselves and goes on to look at what is happening round the country and at how service providers can help people to get Direct Payments.
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.