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A brighter future for direct payments
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 18(1), 2004, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
A central difficulty of the current status of direct payments support is that it has a monopolistic position. Organisations providing support are funded and therefore controlled by local authorities, more interested in value for money and targets that actually supporting disabled people as they wish. Looks to the future and considers 2 possible solutions. One, mid-term, would be a free market approach, the other, more radical and long term, a personal assistance agency or management service.
Money talks, but what does it say?: direct payments and the commodification of care
- Author:
- LEECE Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 16(3), September 2004, pp.211-221.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The development of direct payments has been greatly influenced by the combined pressure of governments' determination to create a mixed economy in social care and action from the disability movement in its quest for independent living and social justice. The extent to which the ideals of these perspectives have been realised by the reality of direct payments is unclear. One outcome of the shift to a market economy is that social care provision is treated progressively as a commodity to be bought and sold. Charts the background to cash payments, explores the issues and considers what the future may hold.
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.
The future challenge for direct payments
- Authors:
- CARMICHAEL Angie, BROWN Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(7), December 2002, pp.797-808.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Since 1997, Local Authorities have had the discretionary power to pay cash directly to disabled adults up to the age of 65 and assessed as needing social service support. More recently, the scope of Direct Payments has been widened to include people aged over 65 years and will, under the Health and Social Care Act 2001, be extended to further groups including disabled people from 16 to 18 years of age and parent carers of young children with impairments. Direct Payments have the potential not only to impact radically upon an individual's quality of life but also to influence the 'community care' market economy and the way personal support services are purchased and delivered in the future. Recent figures from a survey undertaken by the Association of Directors of Social Services suggest that 80% of local authorities have already introduced a Direct Payments scheme and that over 3500 people are already in receipt of direct payments.
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.
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.
Time for direct action
- Authors:
- VALOIS Natalie, ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.09.02, 2002, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The take up of direct payments is highest among disabled people, which is unsurprising considering it was the physical disability movement that pushed so hard for the scheme.However, practical problems and prejudicial attitudes within local and central government still present barriers to the uptake of direct payments for people with learning difficulties.
Bottom of the list
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.3.97, 1997, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Direct payments for disabled people were widely welcomed as a progressive measure. Asks then, why some local authorities are being slow to implement them.
State of independence
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.4.96, 1996, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Direct payments give disabled people the power to buy the care they need. But some now owe massive sums to the Inland Revenue because no one told them how to be good employers, writes the author.
The Litmus test
- Author:
- MASON Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 11.6.92, 1992, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
In the run up to the care in the community reforms, people with disabilities are demanding autonomy - and this includes their own homes and direct payments. Argues that if the government's commitment to independent living is to be taken seriously it must listen, and act.