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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.
Case threatens direct payments
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.8.99, 1999, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An industrial tribunal recently ruled that local authorities - not disabled people - are the employers of personal assistants. Asks what this will mean for direct payments schemes and disabled people's independence.
Exercising the right to freedom of choice
- Author:
- HASLER Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, June 1999, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The introduction of direct payments meant that people with disabilities were able to arrange their own services. The author, of the National Centre for Independent Living explores the difference this had made to disabled people taking up this option.
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.
The costs of control
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.1.99, 1999, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled people have welcomed the proposal in the social services White Paper to extend direct payments. Compares the government's proposals with those of the rest of Europe.
What price independence: independent living and people with high support needs
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 68p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Report on the situation of disabled people with high support needs, defined, for the purposes of the study, in terms of the costs of community care packages costing more than four hundred pounds a week. Focuses on: high cost packages of care and rationing; budget constraints; assistance with personal care; assistance with health care; and independent living.