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Take good care of yourself
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 30.11.95, 1995, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on the experience of a muscular dystrophy sufferer who pays for her own care with funds from a charity backed by her local authority. A proposal in the Queen's Speech would enable disabled people to receive direct payments from social services departments to buy their own care. PHOTOCOPY OF ARTICLE KEPT IN LIBRARY OFFICE
Direct payments to disabled people: empowerment or privatisation
- Author:
- HINCHLIFFE David
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, March 1995, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Discusses the issues which the Labour Party will have to address in looking at the question of direct payment to disabled people.
Cashing in on community care
- Author:
- REITH Lorna
- Journal article citation:
- Impact, 11, January 1995, p.13.
The author, who is the director of the Disability Alliance, welcomes the government's pledge to allow direct payments in lieu of local authority services.
Brave new world
- Author:
- BELL Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 6.1.95, 1995, p.8.
Asks whether direct cash payments to disabled people are the way forward. Looks at what is happening in Tower Hamlets.