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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.
Will direct funding mean genuine empowerment - or a candyfloss charade?
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 9(4), April 1996, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author warns that terms like direct funding and brokerage could be used to hide new forms of professional colonialism. Or the direct funding system could be a great success story leading to genuine and radical transfer of power. Asks which it is to be.
The development of quasi-vouchers in Australia's community services
- Author:
- LYONS Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 23(2), April 1995, pp.127-139.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Traces the development within Australia's community services of a method of government support for some of these services which is best described as a quasi-voucher. The essential difference between quasi-vouchers and more conventional methods of support such as grants and contracts is the support such as focused on the consumer of services, not the provider. After a discussion of vouchers as a particular set of tools for government action, the development of such tools is described in four programmes: child care, nursing home care, disability services and home care.
Flexible choices
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.11.94, 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As government considers its options on funding services for disabled people, a survey commissioned by the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People reveals overwhelming support within social services for giving people the cash to buy their own care.
Taking rights structurally: disability, rights and social worker responses to direct payments
- Author:
- STAINTON Tim
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 32(6), September 2002, pp.751-763.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article examines the link between a justice and rights discourse and disability policy and practice. Specifically, it considers social worker responses to direct payments, a policy which has been linked to a discourse of social justice and rights. The article initially considers the nature of justice and rights, arguing that these can plausibly be seen to be grounded in the idea of autonomy and that a rights or justice based social policy and practice must be grounded in the protection, enhancement and development of the capacity for autonomous action. The article then presents partial findings of a research project, which sampled social workers' views and attitudes towards direct payments in three local authorities. The findings suggest that social workers are aware of the link between direct payments and autonomy and are generally very supportive of the move to a rights based approach to policy and practice as evidenced by programmes such as direct payments. The article concludes that structural constraints limit social workers' ability to fully function from a rights based approach to disability.