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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.
On being the boss
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(2), 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author argues that there are significant benefits in employing personal assistants and that the direct payments system is the way ahead. However, highlights some of the problems in being the boss.
A direct route for cash
- Author:
- GLASBY Jon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.1.01, 2001, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author explains how direct payments work, and points out the benefits and pitfalls of a system that is aimed at allowing service users to gain more control over the care they receive.
Direct payments scheme delivers at a distance
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 8(1), September 2001, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Reports on one of the winners of the health and social care awards. Looks at Hampshire County Councils experience of extending the use of direct payments to older people.
Our way or no way
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.7.01, 2001, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Direct payment schemes can make a positive contribution to care, but what happens when the service user disagrees with the practitioner about how funds should be used? The author talks to a social workers about a case in which the user and her husband had strong views about the type of care they wanted.
So what will carers gain?
- Author:
- CRAGG Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.3.01, 2001, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how the Carers and Disabled Persons Act 2000 is going to work.
Services, but at a price
- Author:
- BURROWS Gideon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.3.01, 2001, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Carers and Disabled Children's Act 2000 promises carers flexibility. Looks at how this flexibility will come at a cost, because local authorities will be charging for carers' services.
Implementing direct payments: a positive alternative
- Author:
- DAWSON Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 4(1), February 2001, pp.13-16.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 enabled local authorities, for the first time, to make cash payments to individuals assessed as needing community care services. Drawing on the research of a direct payments scheme in Norfolk, this article considers the implementation of direct payments in the light of present understanding of independent living for disabled people. It concludes that for some people direct payments may offer a positive alternative to local authority service provision and that of agencies contracted by social service departments, and to provide a means by which disabled people may gain more control over their lives.
Direct payments go to school
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(3), January 2001, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Direct payments policy will be five years old this year. Examines the problems it is facing and the lessons it must learn. Focuses on the area of personal assistants.
Disability, citizenship and community care: a case for welfare rights?
- Author:
- RUMMERY Kirstein
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 201p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book develops the theory of social citizenship in a way that is relevant to current analyses of the future of the welfare state. It examines the role community care policy and practice plays in shaping disabled people's citizenship in the UK, providing compelling evidence of the ways in which the welfare state can either support, or act as a barrier to disabled people's social participation. The author lays out a challenge to the current relationship between disabled people and the welfare state.