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Equal Access for Carers
- Pat's story - a carer's use of direct payments
This is the story of how Direct Payment's helped Pat, the mother and carer of a child with disabilities, to pursue training in the profession of her choice. She now has a career as a therapeutic couns... - Counsel and Care Brief and Complete Direct Payments Guides for people over 65
Counsel and Care has published two step-by-step guides to using Direct Payments for older people, their families and carers. They were developed as part of the 'Keeping Control' project, which involved... - BME communities - Increasing the uptake of direct payments. Local authority examples
These case studies are reports taken directly from local authorities and illustrate approaches taken to increasing the uptake of Direct Payments amongst people from BME communities. Each case study provides... - Deafblind people and families' experiences of direct payments
This report from national deafblind charity, Sense, contains findings of its research into the experiences of deafblind people and families of Direct Payments. The full report includes key findings, individuals'... - Direct payments for carers
These documents show a systematic approach to Direct Payments for carers to purchase the services they are assessed as needing to support them in their caring role. They can give carers, and the cared... - SCIE Position paper 09: Developing measures for effective service user and carer participation
This paper from the Social Care Institute for Excellence presents the process and outcomes of research into service user and carer participation in developing social care services. The paper looks at... - SCIE Resource guide 07: Participation: finding out what difference it makes
With service user and carer participation firmly on the agenda, there is a need to find out what difference service user and carer participation is making. This online resource from SCIE is based on research... - At a glance 10: Personalisation briefing: Implications for carers
This SCIE briefing examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for carers and the two main elements, primarily that personalisation should: impact on the support provided to the person... - At a glance 5: Mental Capacity Act 2005
This SCIE summary presents an overview of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for England and Wales. The MCA promotes and safeguards decision-making within a legal framework by: empowering people to... - Putting People First
Across Government, the shared ambition is to put people first through a radical reform of public services, enabling people to live their own lives as they wish, confident that services are of high quality,...