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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.
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.
A user controlled best value review of direct payments
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
All best value reviews include a requirement to consult with service users. This review demonstrated how service users can play more central role in designing and undertaking much of the review themselves. A project group of disabled people was established to review direct payments in one local authority using statutory best value framework.
Direct payments in action: implementation by social services departments in England
- Author:
- JORDAN Claire
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Direct payments can greatly improve disabled people’s quality of life by offering increased control, flexibility and choice. Despite this, take-up of direct payments has so far been relatively low. Department of Health figures for 2003 show 12,585 people using direct payments, with take-up in some areas much higher than in others. This survey aimed to identify what social service departments saw as the barriers to using direct payments effectively.
Fairer charging policies for home care and other non-residential social services: practice guidance
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice guidance concentrates on four main areas: initial design of policy and consultation; assessment of disability related expenditure; benefits and advice; and good practice standards and performance monitoring.
User control in a best value review of direct payments project: a case study
- Author:
- EVANS Clare
- Journal article citation:
- MCC Building Knowledge for Integrated Care, 10(4), October 2002, pp.39-44.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Service users in Wiltshire have had the opportunity of demonstrating how they could undertake a user-controlled Best Value review including showing the variety of ways they chose to evaluate the service - in this case Direct Payments. Using the Best Value framework of the four Cs, they compared support services and costings with those in other local authority areas, designed consultation surveys and challenged care managers about their knowledge of the service. Learning from the project has implications for all those involved in social care Best Value reviews and the participation of users.
A response to the best value review of direct payments in Wiltshire undertaken by disabled people
- Author:
- MACFARLANE Ann
- Journal article citation:
- MCC Building Knowledge for Integrated Care, 10(4), October 2002, pp.45-48.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The author, an independent disability equality consultant examines the wider context in which the innovative Wiltshire user-controlled Best Value review of direct payments should be perceived, and directly challenges some current policy and practice.
An easy guide to Direct Payments: giving you the choice and control
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This easy read book is for people who want to know more about direct payments. Direct payments are a different way of getting the support users need. This book tells users the most important things about direct payments. It tells them about some new rules to do with direct payments. The new rules started in April 2003.
Making direct payments work: identifying and overcoming barriers to implementation
- Authors:
- HASLER Frances, STEWART Angela
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 84p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Direct payments are a cost-effective way of delivering services to disabled people and their carers. This report explores the barriers to and successes in the delivery of direct payments, based on a project conducted in the North East of England. It concludes that a supportive local authority infrastructure, an understanding of the principles of independent living and a commitment to partnership with users are key to the success of direct payments. The authors suggest that the challenge for local authorities is twofold: to establish strategic frameworks to ensure that the systems, training, understanding, documentation and lines of communication are in place, and to actively seek partnership with users and user organisations in setting up user-led support services for direct payments.
Experiencing ethnicity: discrimination and service provision
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Black and minority ethnic service users felt mainstream services were often inappropriate for their needs and that services made assumptions based on stereotypes and prejudice about what the needs of these users may be or what they may want to access. The experience of racial discrimination and prejudice in mainstream service provision often meant that what minority ethnic users were asking for were specialist, culturally competent services. There were few black and minority ethnic staff in mainstream services and some of the services had made little attempt to change this.There was a general desire for more information about services and entitlements from service providers. For example, very few disabled people had any knowledge of direct payment schemes. Religious and cultural identity was very important to many people from minority ethnic communities but it was rarely responded to by mainstream service providers. Common myths about informal family networks looking after each other cannot be taken for granted. The research showed that although informal support is available in certain circumstances, this cannot be relied upon. People sometimes experienced discrimination and prejudice within their own community and faith groups. The differences between the experiences of men and women were often sharper than the differences between different ethnic groups.