Direct Payments is the system of, basically, rather than giving a direct service, providing money to the user of the service to ‘buy’ the care that they need directly.
‘Direct Payments were introduced in the UK
- for adults with a disability in 1997
- for older people in 2000
- for carers, parents of disabled children and for [...]
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