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Implementing direct payments
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 introduced direct payments, allowing some disabled people to purchase the provision of their own support. In 1997, a pilot project was established in Norfolk, to consider the implementation of direct payments in a largely rural county. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation supported the pilot scheme by funding a researcher to assist with an evaluation of the project.
The direct route
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.9.99, 1999, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Direct payment schemes have been around for more than two and a half years and yet inconsistencies between local authorities are rife and take-up is low. Looks at the problems and solutions.
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 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.
A place for support: new policies for informal carers in long-term programmes
- Author:
- SCHUNK Michaela
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 28, April 2000, pp.22-25.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Reviews policy trends for informal carers which have been implemented in various countries between 1996 - 1998. The article focuses on respite care and direct payments for carers of older ill and disabled adults.
Direct payments in England: factors linked to variations in local provision
- Authors:
- FERNANDEZ Jose-Luis, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 36(1), January 2007, pp.97-121.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Direct payments have moved to the heart of the government's drive for increased user choice. At the same time, implementation has remained disappointing. This article explores the demand, supply and related factors associated with patterns of local variability in uptake and intensity of care package provision. Statistical analyses are conducted for key client groups – people with physical disabilities, older people, people with learning disabilities and people who use mental health services – using data for England from 2000–01 to 2002–03. The results suggest that direct payments variability reflects a complex array of factors, both within and beyond the control of local public actors. In particular, while local policy preferences appear to shape the extent of direct payments growth, the results also demonstrate that understanding levels of activity requires attention to local circumstances.
A content analysis of direct payment policies within England
- Authors:
- TOBIN Roseanne, VICK Nicola
- Publisher:
- Health and Social Care Advisory Service
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 33p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Under the provisions of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act (1996) disabled people have the legal right to receive payment of community care monies and to purchase their own care based on an agreed needs-led assessment, their eligibility under the Act and their eligibility for a community care payment. Despite a growth over time in the numbers of people in receipt of direct payments, wide variations persist in the availability of direct payments support schemes and in the take up of payments across care groups. This study aims to evaluate the process of direct payment policy implementation and the impact of social care modernisation on the availability of support schemes and on ensuring equity of access for users of physical disability, learning disability, mental health, older persons’ services and their carers.
Buying Independence: using direct payments to integrate health and social services
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, et al
- Publisher:
- National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Shows how disabled people do not make clear distinctions between 'health' and 'social' care. Through direct payments, they are able to control and integrate into their daily routines a wide range of health-related activities, such as physiotherapy and nursing tasks, in ways which offer increased independence and better quality of life, compared with conventional health services. Is extending direct payments to older people and disabled children a shift in the boundary between 'health' and 'social' services? This book explores how direct payments can improve further the integration of services from the perspectives of the users and providers involved.
Direct payments and older people: the principles of independent living
- Authors:
- HASLER Frances, ZARB Gerry
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 18(2), 2000, pp.7-12.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
The main part of the paper focuses on the extension of the Community Care (Direct Payments Act) to older people, drawing on research carried out by PSI and others, the recent practice guide on local authority implementation of direct payments produced by PSI and NCIL, as well as as NCIL's development work on IL and older people. It then considers the specific issues of : interpreting key direct payment criteria such as consent and 'willing and able'; models of assessment compatible with IL principles and putting in place appropriate forms of advice and support to enable older people to manage their own support arrangements.
Direct payments offer older people hope of greater empowerment
- Author:
- HEPTINSTALL Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 3(1), January 1999, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Following a nine-month review, the Government has announced that direct payments will be extended to people aged 65 and over. In this guide to direct payments, the author explains the policy background, the origins of the idea, how they work and the problems of the present legislation. It calls for the right to direct payments to be made mandatory on all local authorities.