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Will direct funding mean genuine empowerment - or a candyfloss charade?
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 9(4), April 1996, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author warns that terms like direct funding and brokerage could be used to hide new forms of professional colonialism. Or the direct funding system could be a great success story leading to genuine and radical transfer of power. Asks which it is to be.
Keeping consumers at the centre of planning
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, HAWKES Annie
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(1), September 1999, pp.8-14.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The authors suggest that assessment and care planning needs a system which can be understood by services users as well as by professionals. They show how the 'four magnets' - control, skills, pain and contact - can be unifying and holistic.