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Schemes providing support to people using direct payments
— a UK survey | | Author(s) | Vanessa Davey, Tom Snell, José-Luis Fernández |
| Corporate Author | Direct Payments Survey group (DPS), Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE |
| Publisher | Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, on behalf of the Direct Payments Survey group, September 2007 |
| Pages | 126 pp |
| Source | The Administrator, Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Free download available from DPS web pages: www.pssru.ac.uk/dps.htm |
| Keywords | Services ; Community care ; Social security benefits ; Independence ; Usage [services] ; Projects ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Direct payments give greater control to people assessed as needing social care or support, and form a key part of the agenda for the developing social care system. However, they also raise many challenges for all involved, be they users or scheme administrators. This report sets out the main findings from a survey of schemes providing support to direct payment users, by identifying their capacity to respond to the needs of different user groups. The focus is on the main parameters of supply: staffing levels; income and expenditure; extent and ranges of services provided; levels of service utilisation; and factors aiding or hindering the implementation of direct payment. The survey represents the combined efforts of three multidisciplinary research teams involved in national studies of direct payments: a team from the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); a team from the Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow; and a team from the Health and Social Care Advisory Service (HASCAS), the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (FPLD) at the Mental Health Foundation and the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) at the University of Birmingham. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080428001 B |
| Classmark | I: PA: JH: C3: QLD: 3E: 3F |
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