Direct payment schemes can make a positive contribution to care, but what happens when the service user disagrees with the practitioner about how funds should be used? The author talks to a social workers about a case in which the user and her husband had strong views about the type of care they wanted.
Direct payment schemes can make a positive contribution to care, but what happens when the service user disagrees with the practitioner about how funds should be used? The author talks to a social workers about a case in which the user and her husband had strong views about the type of care they wanted.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, risk, social work methods, social workers, assessment, decision making, direct payments;
Practice: Social Work in Action, 9(3), 1997, pp.45-58.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Over recent years many Social Services Departments have tended towards specialist teams and away from genericism. This article describes a pilot post of social worker
Over recent years many Social Services Departments have tended towards specialist teams and away from genericism. This article describes a pilot post of social worker
Subject terms:
HIV AIDS, homeless people, homelessness, interagency cooperation, learning disabilities, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, performance evaluation, physical disabilities, social services, social work, social work methods, substance misuse, vulnerable adults, care management, community care;