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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.
Disability, participation and welfare to work in Staffordshire
- Author:
- WOOD Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(2), April 2003, pp.43-48.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes Staffordshire's Welfare to Work Joint Investment Plan, an inter-agency approach to improving job opportunities for disabled people and their carers. A partnership with Staffordshire University, through the Consumers as Researchers course, has also enabled disabled people to acquire research skills and survey the views of other disabled people on barriers to employment and strategies to overcome them.
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.
From interface to integration: a strategy for modernising occupational therapy services in local health and social care communities; a consultation
- Author:
- COLLEGE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
- Publisher:
- College of Occupational Therapists
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 37p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Proposes an approach to service delivery which offers a seamless approach for clients and organisations. The vision is to achieve joint working of an integrated range of occupational therapy services that will bring an end to confusion and duplication for people who need to use them. The strategy focuses on the organisation of statutory service delivery. This means getting occupational therapists with the right knowledge and skills at the right place and time. The proposal is for a community based general practitioner model to ensure an integrated approach that enables services to be developed as a continuum that is responsive to the needs of service users, their carers and families.
Users as citizens: collective action and the local governance of welfare
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 33(1), March 1999, pp.73-90.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Drawing on theories of new social movements and of citizenship, this article considers the developing place of user organisations within systems of local governance. It looks at the way in which groups have sought to assert the legitimacy both of experimental knowledge and of their position as citizens in the face of official responses which have constructed them as self-interested pressure groups. It draws on empirical research investigating local groups of disabled people and of mental health service users conducted in the first part of the 1990s. The article considers likely future roles for groups comprising of people often excluded from community.