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Slow on the uptake
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.5.98, 1998, p.22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the patchy record of local authorities implementing direct payments legislation.
Facilitating and supporting independent living: a guide to setting up a Personal Assistance Support Scheme
- Authors:
- SIMPSON Fidelity, CAMPBELL Jane
- Publisher:
- Disablement Income Group
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Handbook aimed at anyone wanting to set up a personal assistance support (PAS) scheme for disabled people who are managing their own personal assistance arrangements with the use of cash payments from local authorities.
Disability-related costs and charges for community care
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Publisher:
- Disablement Income Group
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 76p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a project aiming to develop and recommend a basis for considering an individual's disability related costs, which would balance the need to take these outgoings into account when assessing that person's ability to pay community care charges against the need to minimise both extra local authority administration costs and the need for assessment procedures.
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.
Personal assistance support schemes and the introduction of direct payments: a report and recommendations
- Author:
- DISABLEMENT INCOME GROUP
- Publisher:
- Disablement Income Group
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 15p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking at the development of personal assistance schemes (PAS) for disabled people. Goes on to examine issues around direct payments via which service users are given cash payments by local authorities to pay directly for their own services.
Local authorities' use of independent living money: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
When the original Independent Living Foundation (ILF) closed, the Government made additional money available to local authorities with their transitional community care grants. The Disablement Income Group has conducted a UK-wide investigation of how that additional money has been used and what change in disability policies and practices it has promoted.
The Human Rights Act: what are the implications for older people?; a Help the Aged seminar at Westminster on 13th September 2000
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes a Help the Aged seminar held at Westminster on the thirteenth of September, 2000. Delegates agreed on the need for a greater awareness of the provisions of the Human Rights Act, and extensive training with specific guidelines for those working with older people. Topics addressed included; key concepts; implications of the Act; how the Act can help in practical situations; the role of Help the Aged.
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.