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Caring about independence: disabled people and the Independent Living Fund
- Author:
- LAKEY Jane
- Publisher:
- Policy Studies Institute
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 214p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes the positive benefits the Independent Living Fund had for disabled people, in that it gave them direct cash payments with which to purchase services. Looks at the disadvantages of community care legislation which means that responsibility for such payments has been passed to local authorities, who are not allowed to make direct cash payments.
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.
Access to assessment: perspectives of practitioners, disabled people and carers
- Authors:
- DAVIS Ann, ELLIS Kathryn, RUMMERY Kirstein
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 82p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
In order to look at how disabled people and carers access local authority assessments for community care services, the authors explore how social workers use the recently introduced forms of assessment procedures, and ask disabled people and carers what they think of the new arrangements.
Facilitating and supporting independent living: a guide to setting up a Personal Assistance Support Scheme
- Authors:
- SIMPSON Fidelity, CAMPBELL Jane
- Publisher:
- Disablement Income Group
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Handbook aimed at anyone wanting to set up a personal assistance support (PAS) scheme for disabled people who are managing their own personal assistance arrangements with the use of cash payments from local authorities.
A victim of its own success
- Author:
- SUTTON Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.3.93, 1993, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled people are angry and disappointed about the demise of the Independent Living Fund. Although Nicholas Scott, Minister for Disabled People recognises the success of the ILF he maintains that it was introduced as an interim measure and says that after 1st April local authorities will have to produce community care packages for elderly disabled people. Reports on the debate about ILF's future.
Behaviour disorders and other characteristics of the population of a mental handicap hospital
- Authors:
- KIERNAN Chris, MOSS Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 3(1), 1990, pp.3-20.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Presents information on the characteristics of 981 people living in a mental handicap hospital, including their age, sex, sensory and physical impairments, and level of behaviour disorder, and examines the inter-relation of these features. The findings indicate that health and local authorities should take particular note of two features, age and behaviour disorders, when developing and implementing their resettlement policies for people with mental handicaps.
Juggling to keep within the law?
- Author:
- HALFORD John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(1), July 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Under increasing financial pressure, many local authorities have cut services for disabled people living in the community, increased charges for those services, or both. The author considers whether such strategies are lawful.
Community care for people with cerebral palsy: social work perspectives
- Author:
- BRIDGE Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 11(4), 1999, pp.15-26.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Using material derived from an empirical study in the London area of 58 parents whose children have cerebral palsy, this article examines the role and tasks of professional social workers. The subject is approached both from the perspectives of local authority social workers and those of parents. The findings that social workers feel restricted by community care responsibilities and by shortage of resources, and that parents are hostile and adversarial in their approach to them, echo the most recent reports from the Social Services Inspectorate. Argues for improving the training of social workers and for recognising that community are involves more than organisational responses.
A question of good practice? Community care law and occupational therapists
- Author:
- MANDELSTAM Michael
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61(8), August 1998, pp.351-358.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Occupational therapists working in social services departments and delivering community care continue to be subject to anxiety about the legality of some of their actions. This article considers aspects of relevant legislation decisions of the law courts and recommendations of the local ombudsmen.
At last, support without the stigma
- Author:
- SAPEY Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, December 1997, p.7.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Explains why social workers should actively support direct payments.