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Slow on the uptake
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.5.98, 1998, p.22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the patchy record of local authorities implementing direct payments legislation.
Still missing out?: ending poverty and social exclusion; messages to government from families with disabled children
- Author:
- SHARMA Neera
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
This report argues that the government should establish a minimum income standard which includes targeted support to meet extra essential costs of caring for a disabled child. It also suggests that national awareness campaign on disability should be developed and that the housing policy for disabled children be reviewed.
Independent successes: implementing direct payments
- Author:
- DAWSON Carol
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 81p., bibiliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Direct payments have been heralded as a means by which disabled people might gain more independence and control over their lives. However, the introduction of cash payment in lieu of community care is highly complex for both disabled people who wish to employ their own personal assistants and or social services departments. This report evaluates and draws the experience of those who receive direct payments and draws on qualitative interviews with them and within the operational and support staff within social services departments.
Responsibilities of local authority social services departments: implications of recent legal judgments
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Letter advising on the latest position following judgments in two judicial review cases: R v Gloucestershire County Council and the Secretary of State, ex parte Barry (the "Gloucestershire Judgment"); and R v Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council, ex parte Help the Aged and Others (the "Sefton Judgment"). The first concerns local authority resources and needs assessment; the second concerns residential accommodation and assessment of users capital resources.