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Direct payments: the impact on choice and control for disabled people
- Authors:
- WITCHER Sally, et al
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Financial provision and direct payments 2001
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The purpose of this release is to present national figures on Scottish local authority financial provision and direct payments.
Keeping the cash under control: what's the problem with direct payments in Scotland?
- Author:
- PEARSON Charlotte
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(1), January 2004, pp.3-14.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Implementation of the 1996 Community Care (Direct Payments) Act from April 1997 has gradually gained momentum as more and more local authorities have begun to embrace the idea, and develop their own direct payment policies and support structures. However, whilst users have overwhelmingly welcomed this transition, there remains a stark divide between the implementation and promotion of policy in different parts of the UK. This has resulted in only marginal use of direct payments for a small number of disabled persons in Scotland. As legislation moves to widen access to direct payments in Scotland, this article draws on a series of interviews with policy makers in two local authorities and examines some of the key problems that, to date, have prevented many authorities from offering direct payments as a mainstream service option for disabled people.
Direct payments: the impact on choice and control for disabled people
- Authors:
- WITCHER Sally, et al
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This research examines the implementation of direct payment across Scotland and their impact on the choice and control which disabled people can exercise in their lives. Presents the findings.
Making progress: equality annual report
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive,|Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Significant advances have been made in equal opportunities through legislation introduced through the Scottish Parliament, which has: made promotion of equality a national priority in education and put a duty on education authorities to say how they will improve equal opportunities; put a duty on Scottish Ministers, local authorities and social landlords to encourage equal opportunities and comply with equality legislation in providing housing and related services; put a duty on the Scottish Commission for Regulation of Care and Scottish Social Services Council to encourage equal opportunities and comply with equality legislation when carrying out their functions; established a statutory committee to advise on transport needs of disabled people; increased protection for those experiencing domestic abuse; recognised rights for same sex couples in cases of adults with incapacity; improved procedures in sexual offence cases, e.g. protecting rape victims from being cross-examined by the accused; put a duty on local authorities to offer eligible disabled people direct payments; repealed section 2a of Local Government Act 1986 thus removing constraints to the discussion of sexual orientation in schools.