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Self-directed services: direct payments and personal assistance schemes
- Author:
- ELSEGOOD Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 2(1), 1994, pp.17-19.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Reviews the experiences of the Greenwich Association of Disabled People in setting up and running a personal assistance scheme designed to maximise disabled people's control over their own lives in the emerging new welfare arrangements.
Reaching out
- Author:
- MITCHELL David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.10.96, 1996, p.31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes a one-stop shop from Capability Scotland makes life simpler for clients by employing outreach workers to do a range of tasks normally done by several staff.
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.
Paying the piper and calling the tune: power and the direct payment relationship
- Author:
- LEECE Janet
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 40(1), January 2010, pp.188-206.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper provides empirical evidence from original research, which investigated the impact on the support relationship of the direct employment of workers, by direct payment users. The study used a grounded theory approach, with questionnaires to measure job satisfaction and stress, and in-depth interviews with respondents. It explored and compared the experiences of eight direct payment relationships with eight traditional service delivery homecare relationships. The research reveals the importance of the concept of power in helping us to understand the effect of direct employment and, based on this research, makes some suggestions for policy and practice.