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Independence pays?
— barriers to the progress of direct payments | | Author(s) | Jon Glasby, Rosemary Littlechild |
| Journal title | Practice, vol 14, no 1, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 55-66 |
| Keywords | Community care ; Social security benefits ; Living in the community ; Independence ; Social workers ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | Despite the potentially empowering nature of direct payments, implementation of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 has been sometimes slow and uneven, with different areas of the country responding less enthusiastically than others to the new reforms, and with different user groups getting less access to payments than others. Whilst numerous barriers have been identified, a key factor is the ignorance and anxieties of front-line social work practitioners, who may sometimes be suspicious of the way in which direct payments will affect their work and jobs. This paper proposes a further and more engrained obstacle to progress, namely the way in which the making of cash payments to individual service users re-establishes a link between social work and financial matters (including poverty awareness) that was deliberately and seemingly irreversibly severed during the welfare reforms of the 1940s. As a result, those seeking to promote direct payments need to be aware of the magnitude of the task ahead of them in seeking to overcome workers' opposition to this new way of working. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020619205 A |
| Classmark | PA: JH: K4: C3: QR: DP |
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