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Bathing: the body and community care
- Author:
- TWIGG Julia
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 240p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Uses bathing as a means of exploring what happens when the public world of professionals enters the lives of older and disabled people. Analyses the experiences of users and carers in the light of historical, sociological and anthropological theory and explores concepts of the body and carework.
Do it yourself
- Author:
- HOCKING Josephine
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.5.07, 2007, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Online self-assessment for of need by older and disabled people is being piloted in Kingston upon Thames. The pilot offers older and disabled people to assess themselves for small items of daily living equipment. The author looks at progress so far, and lessons learned.
Direct payments in England: factors linked to variations in local provision
- Authors:
- FERNANDEZ Jose-Luis, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 36(1), January 2007, pp.97-121.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Direct payments have moved to the heart of the government's drive for increased user choice. At the same time, implementation has remained disappointing. This article explores the demand, supply and related factors associated with patterns of local variability in uptake and intensity of care package provision. Statistical analyses are conducted for key client groups – people with physical disabilities, older people, people with learning disabilities and people who use mental health services – using data for England from 2000–01 to 2002–03. The results suggest that direct payments variability reflects a complex array of factors, both within and beyond the control of local public actors. In particular, while local policy preferences appear to shape the extent of direct payments growth, the results also demonstrate that understanding levels of activity requires attention to local circumstances.
A content analysis of direct payment policies within England
- Authors:
- TOBIN Roseanne, VICK Nicola
- Publisher:
- Health and Social Care Advisory Service
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 33p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Under the provisions of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act (1996) disabled people have the legal right to receive payment of community care monies and to purchase their own care based on an agreed needs-led assessment, their eligibility under the Act and their eligibility for a community care payment. Despite a growth over time in the numbers of people in receipt of direct payments, wide variations persist in the availability of direct payments support schemes and in the take up of payments across care groups. This study aims to evaluate the process of direct payment policy implementation and the impact of social care modernisation on the availability of support schemes and on ensuring equity of access for users of physical disability, learning disability, mental health, older persons’ services and their carers.
A content analysis of direct payments policies in England: an evaluation: executive summary
- Author:
- HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ADVISORY SERVICE
- Publisher:
- Health and Social Care Advisory Service
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Under the provisions of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act (1996) disabled people have the legal right to receive payment of community care monies and to purchase their own care based on an agreed needs-led assessment, their eligibility under the Act and their eligibility for a community care payment. Despite a growth over time in the numbers of people in receipt of direct payments, wide variations persist in the availability of direct payments support schemes and in the take up of payments across care groups. This study aims to evaluate the process of direct payment policy implementation and the impact of social care modernisation on the availability of support schemes and on ensuring equity of access for users of physical disability, learning disability, mental health, older persons’ services and their carers.
The costs of care: the impact of the fairer charging policy on disabled and older people and their carers in England
- Authors:
- HOLMES Richard, MCMULLEN Kate
- Publisher:
- Coalition on Charging
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In October 2002 local authorities in England began implementing the Government’s guidance on charging for care services Fairer charging for home care and other non-residential social services. To check how the new guidance was impacting on the real lives of disabled and older people, members of the Coalition on Charging invited service users to take part in a survey during the summer of 2003. Findings from this survey indicate that despite the introduction of new national guidance there are still inconsistencies with charging policies. Not only do service users and carers find it difficult to get the information they need about local authorities’ charging policies but charging for essential services continues to have a negative impact on people’s personal finances and lifestyles and it remains fundamentally unjust.
Social service users' own definitions of quality outcomes
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Shaping Our Lives project, working in partnership with Black User Group (London), Service User Action Group (Wakefield), Ethnic Disabled Group Emerged (Manchester) and an alliance of user groups in Waltham Forest (London), looked at the application in practice of on-going work about what service users meant by 'user-defined outcomes'. Both the research and the development projects covered a range of experiences - including those of older people, mental health users, minority ethnic communities and disabled people and involving 66 users in all.
Good practice guidance: consultation with equalities groups
- Author:
- REID-HOWIE ASSOCIATES
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Good practice guidance - consultation with equalities groups: a summary
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Equality Unit
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Best value: using the framework to meet the needs of the consumer
- Author:
- BENNETT Shaun
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 5(1), February 2002, pp.4-6.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Supporting People programme will bring about significant changes to the way in which support services are funded and delivered. The Best Value framework provides a key process for achieving the objectives of the Supporting People programme and can underpin the role of service users. A Best Value good practice guide is due to be published shortly by the Housing Corporation, drawing lessons from a number of pilot studies.