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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.
'I have got my life back': users' experience of direct payments
- Authors:
- STAINTON Tim, BOYCE Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(5), August 2004, pp.443-454.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
After years of activism by disabled people's organizations, the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 made Direct Payment (DP) schemes a reality. Proponents of DP argue that it allows greater freedom and control for those people using it, but as these programmes only came into effect in 1997, few studies have tried to substantiate these claims. This paper reports on a two-year evaluation of two DP schemes in Wales. Using primarily users' feedback the paper focuses on the effects of DP and difficulties encountered, as well as why people chose--or did not choose--DP in the first place. User responses indicate a broad range of beneficial outcomes, including improved self-esteem, increased control over lives, deeper and more lasting relationships, and new interpersonal, vocational and lifestyle opportunities, as a result of the greater flexibility and freedom of choice enabled by DP. Family carers expressed similar satisfaction with DP schemes, also citing greater freedoms as a result of increased flexibility. While some potential users expressed concern over the administration of a DP scheme, users found that, with support from a user driven Independent Living Scheme, the administrative burden was manageable, and that ultimately the DP scheme was a welcome approach to support.
The centrality of impairment in the empowerment of people with severe physical impairments: independent living and the threat of incarceration: a human right
- Author:
- HOUSTON Stewart
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(4), June 2004, pp.307-321.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
To research what empowerment and independent living meant to physically impaired people with severe impairments, and to consider whether their understanding and interpretation of empowerment equates to the politically generated version of empowerment and independent living as described in the Direct Payments Act 1996. An important element of the research was to consider the issue of impairment in the empowerment of physically impaired people with severe impairments within current social models of disability, i.e. current field of disability studies the need for a social model of impairment. As the research progressed it became evident that the Direct Payments Act was not about empowerment, but rather a process of 'enablement' in which the principles of empowerment and independent living espoused by physically impaired people was fundamentally different to the politically-generated version inherent within the Act itself. The findings revealed that empowerment and independent living transcended the realms of the political rhetoric of 'enablement' and was seen as a rights issue in which 'the right to live in ones own home or accommodation within mainstream society and community without fear of incarceration in a residential institution' was accorded the status of a fundamental human right.
Is help easily at hand?
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.5.04, 2004, pp.28-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Direct payments were introduced to empower service users. Looks at their impact so far and the barriers that exist to people taking-up direct payments.
Direct payments
- Author:
- HOLMSTROM Radhika
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 12, April 2002, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Direct payments promised to lead empowered disabled service users into the promised land of self-determination. However, far fewer people have taken up the scheme than expected. Looks at what could have gone wrong, and how it might be put right.
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.
Care managers can be champions for direct payments
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(4), June 2000, pp.13-16.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Since the introduction of direct payments in 1997, only limited progress has been made in introducing schemes for people with learning difficulties. This article reviews the developments and the challenges, including the difficulties caused by publicity over the South Lanarkshire case. Care managers should do more to support and promote direct payments which are "exciting, challenging, innovative tools that help us towards empowerment and equality".
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.
Direct payments are they all good news?
- Author:
- CLEMENTS Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 10(2), October 1997, pp.8-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Offering people more control and choice in their lives is a compelling argument for direct payments. But is it all good news? This article suggests they could result in a re-alignment of power between disabled individuals and their support workers rather than a genuine political empowerment. And the savings envisaged may just be those resulting from a shift of financial and administrative burdens to families.
The empowerment of money
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 2(3), March 1996, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Direct payments are an idea whose time has come, the House of Lords was told during the second reading of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Bill. This article describe the Bill's proposals, examines some of the problems, and reports on the call that all disabled people should have the right to receive direct payments. Also highlights key quotes from the Lords debate.