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Disability
- Author:
- THORNTON Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2000, 2000, pp.8-10.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Direct payments are designed to allow disabled people to purchase their own services, so that they themselves can tailor their care to their needs. But recent research suggests that the payments have had mixed results in helping them to escape the cycle of social exclusion.
Cash on delivery?
- Author:
- HATCHETT Will
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.5.91, 1991, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Direct payments made to disabled people by Social Services Departments to purchase services would appear not to be legal.
Will 'In Control' at last put people in charge of their lives?
- Author:
- DUFFY Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 18(4), May 2005, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reports on the difficulties faced by disabled people in terms of managing direct payments, and describes the work of In Control - a national programme designed to transform all social care into a system of self-directed support.
Personal assistance: direct payments or alternative public service: does it matter for the promotion of user control?
- Author:
- ASKHEIM Ole Petter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(3), May 2005, pp.247-260.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Personal assistance organised as direct payments is seen as an important means for securing user control and freeing disabled people from their reliance on welfare professionals and unpaid carers. The hypothesis put forward in the article is that just looking at whether personal assistance is organised as direct payments or as an alternative service represents an overly restricted approach to judge how the user’s preferences are taken care of. By comparing models of personal assistance in the US, the UK, Sweden and Norway it will show that several other factors influence user control. In the final part of the article the question is raised as to whether paternalism is always negative for welfare service users. Since the users constitute a broad group it might be questioned if the assumption of the service users as rational, well informed and competent to make the best choices is always valid.
Supporting disabled adults as parents
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Effective support for disabled parents is still thin on the ground, though many local authorities are beginning to recognise the importance of this group of parents. Valued support can involve substantial packages of assistance; but it can also involve low-cost imaginative solutions devised with parents. Direct payments (cash in lieu of direct services) may be particularly appropriate in enabling many disabled adults to fulfil essential parenting roles. Legislation in this field can cause confusion, but the researchers found some practitioners drawing on both adults' and children's legislation flexibly and creatively to support disabled parents in the best interests of the whole family. Good joint working between social services and key agencies (health, housing, education, leisure) and between different social services teams is much needed but insufficiently developed for disabled parents. The researchers recommend that professionals should 'think parent' and view disabled parents in the same way as non-disabled parents: the vast majority want to parent their children well. They may require additional support to do this.
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 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.
Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Key features of the Act are to make provision about the assessment of carers' needs; to provide services to help carers; and to provide payments to carers and disabled children aged 16 or 17 in lieu of the provision of services to them.
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
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.