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  • Safeguarding: Direct payments for those who lack capacity

    The duty on councils to provide direct payments will be extended to people who lack capacity under regulations produced last week by the Department of Health , and it seems to have thrown out some safeguarding concerns. The payment would be managed by a third party who would hire personal assistants...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 08-25-2008
  • Personal view of Personalisation

    I have to admit, before I start, that I have a somewhat brief view of personalisation which the Department of Health explains:- This means that every person who receives support, whether provided by statutory services or funded by themselves, will have choice and control over the shape of that support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
  • Devon promises holy grail of efficiency and personalisation

    by Mithran Samuel Devon Council is currently shaking up its care management function in a reform which promises to both lower the costs of adult social care services and make them more personalised around the user - what the jargon lovers among us may describe as a "win-win". We have been here...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-17-2008
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