Social Work and Direct Payments

Social Work and Direct Payments

by RosemaryLittlechild (Author), JonGlasby (Author)

Synopsis

The 1996 Community Care (Direct Payments) Act came into force in 1 April 1997, empowering social services departments to make cash payments to some service users in lieu of direct service provision. Social work and direct payments guides readers through the issues at stake in this fundamental area of practice. The book summarises and builds on current knowledge and research about direct payments in the UK and considers developments in other European countries. It identifies good practice in the area and explores the implications of direct payments, both for service users and for social work staff.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 03 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 186134385X
ISBN 13: 9781861343857

Media Reviews
... a useful reference book both for policy makers and practitioners. Quality in Ageing
This book will fill a gap in academic studies of direct payments. There is no other publication as comprehensive as this one. Frances Hasler, Co-Director, National Centre for Independent Living
Author Bio
Jon Glasby is Professor of Health and Social Care and Head of the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham. A qualified social worker by background, he has been a board member of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, an NHS Non-Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Integrated Care. Rosemary Littlechild is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham. She is a qualified social worker and her research and publication interests are in work with older people, community care, partnership working between social care and health services, and service user and carer involvement.