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Independent successes: implementing direct payments
- Author:
- DAWSON Carol
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 81p., bibiliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Direct payments have been heralded as a means by which disabled people might gain more independence and control over their lives. However, the introduction of cash payment in lieu of community care is highly complex for both disabled people who wish to employ their own personal assistants and or social services departments. This report evaluates and draws the experience of those who receive direct payments and draws on qualitative interviews with them and within the operational and support staff within social services departments.