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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.
Direct payments: what are the barriers?
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report includes the findings of a consultation event and follow-up policy seminar that the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) held in June 2004. The purpose was to collect evidence and opinions about factors that were limiting the successful implementation of direct payments – the policy whereby people receive cash in lieu of social services, which they are assessed as needing, in order to arrange their own care and support. Though growing, the number of people receiving direct payments remains disappointingly low. The barriers are broadly seen to be: lack of clear information for people who might take advantage of direct payments; low staff awareness of direct payments and what they are intended to achieve; restrictive or patronising attitudes about the capabilities of people who might use a direct payment and a reluctance to devolve power away from professionals to the people who use the service; inadequate or patchy advocacy and support services for people applying for and using direct payments; inconsistencies between the intention of the legislation and local practice; unnecessary, over-bureaucratic paperwork; and problems in recruiting, employing, retaining and developing personal assistants and assuring quality.
The good practice guide for support workers and personal assistants working with disabled people with communication impairments
- Authors:
- ABEL Pru, et al
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Many disabled people have communication impairments and this has particular implications for helping them to go about their daily lives. This booklet is aimed at personal assistants and support workers who are assisting people with communication impairments and it focuses on just one part of the assistance that is provided, help with communication. The guide: shows how communication is a human right; shares the experience of being a user of personal assistance who also has a communication impairment; shares the experience of being a personal assistant or support worker, working with someone with a communication impairment; offers practical advice from both the point of view of the disabled person and that of the personal assistant/support worker; and also lists the resources available to those working with this group of people