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| Developments in direct payments | | Author(s) | Janet Leece, Joanna Bornat |
| Publisher | The Policy Press, Bristol, 2006 |
| Pages | 305 pp |
| Source | Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN. E-mail: direct.orders@marston.co.uk |
| Keywords | Services ; Community care ; Social security benefits ; Economic and Social Research Council ; Participation ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Contributors are academics, from the voluntary sector, or direct payments users, and so present their cases in different writing styles. Section 1, "Setting the scene", identifies the main characteristics of direct or personalised payments in three different welfare systems: England and Wales; Scotland; and Canada and the US. Section 2, "Policy into practice", compares the experience of take-up of direct payments among different groups of users: older people, people with learning difficulties or mental health problems, and parents of disabled children. Section 3, "Voices of experience", is an anthology of writing commissioned especially from users of direct payments and by people working as personal assistants. Section 4, "Reporting from the field" includes contributions from people who are directly engaged in implementation and take-up of direct payments. Section 5, "Working with direct payments", looks at the roles and understandings of different groups of practitioners involved in direct payment provision. The last section, "Developments in direct payments", comprises three chapters that each raise issues for the future settlement of direct payment as a form of support in the UK. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070502002 B |
| Classmark | I: PA: JH: PML: TMB: TM2 |
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