Direct Payments for Families
Pippa Murray, Circles Network
ISBN 0952606828, £8
STARS RATING: 4/5
An easy-to-read booklet, this report examines issues relating to many aspects of direct payments for families, writes Ellen Rabinowicz.
In six chapters, plus appendices, the report covers the evolution and administration of direct payments as well as the role of support schemes and relationship considerations in employing a personal assistant. A theme throughout the report is the author’s view of the mismatch between the social model of disability on which direct payments is based and the medical model of disability which often determines access to, and the administration of, these payments.
Families will find the appendices, which offer an overview of the process of getting direct payments as well as lists of resources, the most valuable part.
I only wish the author had devoted more space to practical and concrete advice to families who struggle to gain the direct payments to which they are entitled.
Ellen Rabinowicz is lecturer in social work, University of East London
Direct Payment for Families
January 5, 2006 in Community Care
More from Community Care
Related articles:
Featured jobs
Workforce Insights
- Working with perpetrators of domestic abuse: training social workers to have challenging conversations
- Extending support: the importance of reflective supervision beyond the ASYE
- ‘It’s hopeful work’: social work in an adults’ mental health team
- Podcast: supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism post-pandemic
- ‘There aren’t many roles where you get to take a child on holiday’: the benefits of residential care work
- Workforce Insights – showcasing a selection of the sector’s top recruiters
Community Care Inform
Latest stories
Regulator calls for consistency of support for NQSWs as DfE develops children’s early career framework
Leadership training programme launched for PSWs, AMHP leads and principal OTs in adults’ services
Kent ‘extremely close to capacity’ to care for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
Frisbee Crockery: a girl’s journey from abusive home to safety in care
Comments are closed.