Direct Payments, Independent Living and Mental Health: An Evaluation
Making Choices, Taking Control: Direct Payments and Mental Health Service Users/Survivors
"Direct What?": A Study of Direct Payments to Mental Health Service Users
This book charts the change, critically evaluating progress, take-up, inclusion and access to direct payments by different user groups.
The book summarises and builds on current knowledge and research about direct payments in the UK and considers developments in other European countries.
References Coldham, T. (2004) 'Mental health pilot supports the positive impact of direct payments', Direct Payments News, June, pp 4-5. Dawson, C. (2000) Independent successes: Implementing direct payments, York: Joseph Rowntree ...
Pearson, C. (2000) 'Money talks? Competing discourses in the role of direct payments', Critical Social Policy, vol 20, no 4, pp 459–77. Pearson, C. (2004) 'Keeping the cash under control: what's the problem with direct payments in ...
Direct Payments are cash payments made in lieu of social service provisions, to individuals who have been assessed as needing services. The implementation of direct payments in the United Kingdom...
... with service users and central government each wanting different things from the reforms. This contradiction has been identified most forcefully by Pearson (2000), who emphasises the tensions between the social justice discourse of ...
Mental health The initial neglect of mental health issues was apparent from the early stages of the implementation of direct payments – indeed, as the Direct Payments Bill was being debated in Parliament, there were specific ...