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Implementing direct payments: a positive alternative
- Author:
- DAWSON Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 4(1), February 2001, pp.13-16.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 enabled local authorities, for the first time, to make cash payments to individuals assessed as needing community care services. Drawing on the research of a direct payments scheme in Norfolk, this article considers the implementation of direct payments in the light of present understanding of independent living for disabled people. It concludes that for some people direct payments may offer a positive alternative to local authority service provision and that of agencies contracted by social service departments, and to provide a means by which disabled people may gain more control over their lives.
Brave new world
- Author:
- BELL Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 6.1.95, 1995, p.8.
Asks whether direct cash payments to disabled people are the way forward. Looks at what is happening in Tower Hamlets.
Going for growth
- Author:
- ATROBUS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.1.95, 1995, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Enterprise Training Project, based in Northampton is a project for people with physical disabilities which has embarked on a innovative scheme for involving users in developing services. The focus of the project was to address employment opportunities through personal growth, building and maintaining skills, assertion, real work experience and training. Describes how this was achieved.
Leeds liberation
- Author:
- THOMAS Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 23.1.92, 1992, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The Armley Resource Centre in Leeds aims to empower people with disabilities to lose their often enforced dependency on social services, whilst working within the constraints of the local authority.
Putting the cash upfront
- Author:
- TAYLOR Roy
- Journal article citation:
- ADSS News, 4(8), November 1994, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Social Services
It is over two years since the ADSS unanimously supported the policy of direct payments to disabled people. Looks at developments in policy and practice which have sought to change the law and to empower disabled people through indirect schemes.
Flexible choices
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.11.94, 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As government considers its options on funding services for disabled people, a survey commissioned by the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People reveals overwhelming support within social services for giving people the cash to buy their own care.
Power cut prevention
- Author:
- SIDDIQUI Salma
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 22.9.94, 1994, pp.10-11.
Empowerment has become the cornerstone of community care. Yet, few managers fully appreciate the complexity of moving from a professional-led service to one based on an equitable sharing of power between clients and practitioners. A research project that explored the possibilities and the level of consumer empowerment in services for physically disabled people found that empowerment challenged traditional models of service delivery.
Taking rights structurally: disability, rights and social worker responses to direct payments
- Author:
- STAINTON Tim
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 32(6), September 2002, pp.751-763.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article examines the link between a justice and rights discourse and disability policy and practice. Specifically, it considers social worker responses to direct payments, a policy which has been linked to a discourse of social justice and rights. The article initially considers the nature of justice and rights, arguing that these can plausibly be seen to be grounded in the idea of autonomy and that a rights or justice based social policy and practice must be grounded in the protection, enhancement and development of the capacity for autonomous action. The article then presents partial findings of a research project, which sampled social workers' views and attitudes towards direct payments in three local authorities. The findings suggest that social workers are aware of the link between direct payments and autonomy and are generally very supportive of the move to a rights based approach to policy and practice as evidenced by programmes such as direct payments. The article concludes that structural constraints limit social workers' ability to fully function from a rights based approach to disability.
Direct payments: the information deficit
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, MAGLAJLIC Rea
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 4(3), July 2000, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Direct payments can now be made to older people. But a 12-month research project has revealed that service users, carers and junior staff still have little knowledge of them. The authors of the Shield research team, Anglia Polytechnic University, and Tower Hamlets Coalition of Disabled People explain that service users are cautiously optimistic about what direct payments offer them but are anxious about the practicalities.
Accounting for disability: customer feedback or citizen complaints?
- Authors:
- PILGRIM David, TODHUNTER Colin, PEARSON Maggie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(1), February 1997, pp.3-15.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Summarise the findings of a study of the views and experiences of adults with acquired physical impairments, when involved taking open-ended accounts from respondents in order to elicit their concerns and experiences. The article focuses on two aspects of data from the study: views about health and social services; and those about citizenship. The paper also situates the role and status of personal accounts of disability within the health and social policy context of recent years, which has been characterised by both consumerism and an intensification in the activities of the disability movement.