Examples of Direct Payments in a sentence
In providing non-residential care and support, councils are required to offer Direct Payments in lieu of any social care services to meet the assessed needs of people, provided they have been assessed as willing and able to manage Direct Payments (either alone or with support).
In addition, there would be more flexible ways of assessing need and allocating funding, using as the starting point self-assessments (In Control pioneered this by means205 Qq 733, 772–775, 781206 www.in-control.org.uk207 Commission for Social Care Inspection, Direct Payments: What are the Barriers?, August 2004208 Department of Health, Independence, Well-being and Choice: Our vision for the future of social care for adults in England, Cm 6499, March 2005, p 9209 Ibid., p 11.
As we have noted, Direct Payments, the pioneering form of personalisation, were introduced in 1997.
Direct Payments cannot be used for:— services provided directly by the local authority itself;— permanent residential accommodation;— employment of a spouse/partner or co-resident family member;— any spending that is not intended to meet the assessed needs of the person using the service.
We heard from Professor Beresford that for Direct Payments to be truly empowering much more was needed than simply the ability to make cash transactions: We know that the group of people who do that routinely—self-funders—is the group most vulnerable, often unnecessarily, to institutionalisation, to moving into residential services.