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Getting your rights: a guide for young disabled people
- Author:
- BARNARDO's
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- Barkingside
This leaflet tells users about their rights to services and support as young disabled people. It sets out the sort of information and help that can be expected from staff who work for young disabled people's projects and services.
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.