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Equal lives?: disabled people evaluate an independent living strategy for Essex Social Services
- Authors:
- JOHNS Tracey, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 22(2), 2004, pp.51-57.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Summarises a recent evaluation of an independent living policy for people with physical and sensory impairments who use Essex Social Services. Local disabled people were trained to help. Focuses on a practical account of steps taken to include service users as equal partners in the research process. Gives the authors' personal experiences and views as professional researchers, research sponsors, social service managers and - most important - disabled people involved as co-researchers. Presents ideas for improving the process from the lessons learned.
Disabled Parents Network information briefings: no. 4 getting your needs assessed
- Author:
- DISABLED PARENTS NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Disabled Parents Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
By law, every disabled person has the right to ask their local council to assess their need for community care. The aim should be to help disabled people to live independently and in their own homes wherever possible. The government gives guidance to local authorities about assessing disabled people’s needs and whether and how those needs should be met. A disabled person’s social roles, including parenting, should be part of a community care assessment.
Direct payments scheme delivers at a distance
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 8(1), September 2001, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Reports on one of the winners of the health and social care awards. Looks at Hampshire County Councils experience of extending the use of direct payments to older people.
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.
Kingson's components of success point the way
- Author:
- WEBB Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 2(4), June 1996, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Looks at the implementation of the Independent Living Scheme in the Royal Borough of Kingston.
Cashing in on community care
- Author:
- REITH Lorna
- Journal article citation:
- Impact, 11, January 1995, p.13.
The author, who is the director of the Disability Alliance, welcomes the government's pledge to allow direct payments in lieu of local authority services.
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.
A pot of money
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 17.11.94, 1994, p.11.
Current research by the Disablement Living Group into the way Independent Living Transfer is spent reveals a considerable amount of confusion over its origin and use.
Community care or independent living
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 46p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report exploring some of the experiences of people with disabilities of receiving assistance from partners and other family members, in the form of statutory services and through the direct purchase of the help required. Raises issues for the implementation of community care policies at both local and national levels, including human and civil rights issues.
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.