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Guidelines for independent living schemes
- Author:
- LONDON BOROUGHS DISABILITY RESOURCE TEAM
- Publisher:
- London Boroughs Disability Resource Team
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidelines designed as tools for discussion and local planning. For use by local authorities, disabled people, and operators and users of independent living schemes.
The development of direct payments in the UK: implications for social justice
- Authors:
- RIDDELL Sheila, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 4(1), January 2005, pp.75-85.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Direct payments have been heralded by the disability movement as an important means to achieving independent living and hence greater social justice for disabled people through enhanced recognition as well as financial redistribution. Drawing on data from the ESRC funded project Disabled People and Direct Payments: A UK Comparative Perspective, this paper presents an analysis of policy and official statistics on use of direct payments across the UK. It is argued that the potential of direct payments has only partly been realised as a result of very low and uneven uptake within and between different parts of the UK. This is accounted for in part by resistance from some Labour-controlled local authorities, which regard direct payments as a threat to public sector jobs. In addition, access to direct payments has been uneven across impairment groups. However, from a very low base there has been a rapid expansion in the use of direct payments over the past three years. The extent to which direct payments are able to facilitate the ultimate goal of independent living for disabled people requires careful monitoring.
Perspectives: shirking responsibility
- Author:
- ALIBHAI-BROWN Yasmin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.5.98, 1998, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues the case for caution over direct payment schemes for disabled people.
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.
Our homes, our rights: housing, independent living, and physically disabled people
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Shelter
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 36p., tables, illus., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Identifies the extent to which local authorities are meeting the need for housing and support services amongst disabled people.
Direct payments in action: implementation by social services departments in England
- Author:
- JORDAN Claire
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Direct payments can greatly improve disabled people’s quality of life by offering increased control, flexibility and choice. Despite this, take-up of direct payments has so far been relatively low. Department of Health figures for 2003 show 12,585 people using direct payments, with take-up in some areas much higher than in others. This survey aimed to identify what social service departments saw as the barriers to using direct payments effectively.
The direct approach: disabled people's experience of direct payments; summary of key findings and key recommendations
- Author:
- SCOPE
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Instead of receiving support services directly from their local authority, disabled people can opt to receive the equivalent amount in cash. With cash in lieu of services, disabled people can buy in and tailor their own support package to suit their needs. Local authorities have been able to offer direct payments to people aged between 18 and 65 since 1997. In 2000 the Carers’ and Disabled Children’s Act made direct payments available to 16 and 17 year olds, carers and people with parental responsibility for disabled children. And finally, in April 2003 it was made compulsory for local authorities to offer direct payments to all individuals who are entitled to social services and meet the eligibility criteria for direct payments. Research since the inception of the Act has highlighted the huge difference direct payments have made in enhancing independent living in terms of giving choice and control to disabled people and facilitating social inclusion. Yet disabled people also express concerns that some local policies and practices remain as barriers to the opportunities offered by direct payments.
The direct approach: disabled people's experience of direct payments
- Author:
- MCMULLEN Kate
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 76p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Instead of receiving support services directly from their local authority, disabled people can opt to receive the equivalent amount in cash. With cash in lieu of services, disabled people can buy in and tailor their own support package to suit their needs. Local authorities have been able to offer direct payments to people aged between 18 and 65 since 1997. In 2000 the Carers’ and Disabled Children’s Act made direct payments available to 16 and 17 year olds, carers and people with parental responsibility for disabled children. And finally, in April 2003 it was made compulsory for local authorities to offer direct payments to all individuals who are entitled to social services and meet the eligibility criteria for direct payments. Research since the inception of the Act has highlighted the huge difference direct payments have made in enhancing independent living in terms of giving choice and control to disabled people and facilitating social inclusion. Yet disabled people also express concerns that some local policies and practices remain as barriers to the opportunities offered by direct payments.
Budget cuts deflate enthusiasm for new supported housing scheme
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.3.03, 2003, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how local councils are now being asked to cut costs in Supporting People projects, despite government guarantees that funding would be met in full.
Case threatens direct payments
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.8.99, 1999, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An industrial tribunal recently ruled that local authorities - not disabled people - are the employers of personal assistants. Asks what this will mean for direct payments schemes and disabled people's independence.