Direct Payments and Personal Budgets: Putting Personalisation into Practice

This third edition of the leading textbook on personalization in social welfare payment systems in the United Kingdom brings the analysis wholly up to date, taking into account the major changes enacted by the Coalition Government since 2009 and pointing the way to the likely future, when all social welfare payments and support will be delivered directly, via a personal budget. This close examination of the theory and practice will be essential to scholars, policy makers, and practitioners.

Business & Money

Glasby, Jon

Littlechild, Rosemary

Economics

Policy Press

Direct payments and personal budgets: Putting Personalisation Into Practice

Direct payments and personal budgets are two of the most exciting and important developments in adult social care since the Second World War.  From very small-scale origins, both have grown rapidly and are now set to transform the whole of adult social care.  In future, the government has pledged that everyone will receive a personal budget, and managers, practitioners and students alike will need to be fully conversant with the implications of this.Against this background, this is the first UK introductory textbook on direct payments and personal budgets, summarising the current evidence and implications for policy and practice.  Designed for front-line practitioners and for student social workers, the book places these policies in context, explores their origins and impacts, and sets out the challenges and opportunities for practice.  Written by leading national experts in the personalisation agenda, the book is essential reading for everyone involved in social care.This is a revised and updated second edition of the ground-breaking "Social work and direct payments" (The Policy Press, 2000).

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

<p>Empowerment of users of social care services has become a key issue in much current social work and social policy literature. However, many of these texts have defined participation narrowly, and consequently user involvement has been restricted to influencing the decisions of front-line workers, with little participation in policy making at senior management level. This book explores strategies for effectively involving users in the planning, delivery and evaluation of services. How the key concepts of empowerment, participation and user involvement have been applied in important areas such as mental health, child care services and social welfare is discussed, and the outcomes for users considered. The book draws on extensive research and case studies, and also considers the methodology and ethical dilemmas of carrying out research.</p>
<p>User Involvement and Participation in Social Care is an authoritative, thought-provoking overview of the current situation in social care delivery and presents a convincing argument for greater direct involvement of users at every level of policy making. It will be an invaluable resource for practitioners and researchers involved in social and health care delivery at all levels.</p>

User Involvement and Participation in Social Care: Research Informing Practice

Kemshall, Hazel

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jessica Kingsley

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.

Social work and direct payments

The health and social care divide: The experiences of older people

Drawing on key research, government policies and real-life case studies, the book assists health and social care professionals to work more effectively together in order to improve services for users and carers.The health and social care divide:explains why partnerships are important and what helps/hinders partnership working;reviews the legal and policy framework, providing a chronological overview and placing current initiatives in their historical and social policy context;summarises existing research findings with regard to key health and social care policy debates;uses case studies to explore the implications of this research for health and social care practitioners;provides good practice guidance for both students and front-line practitioners.

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Direct Payments and Personal Budgets: Putting Personalisation into Practice

Direct Payments and Personal Budgets: Putting Personalisation into Practice

Direct Payments and Personal Budgets: Putting Personalisation into Practice

User Involvement and Participation in Social Care: Research Informing Practice

Social work and direct payments

Social work and direct payments

The health and social care divide: The experiences of older people

The health and social care divide: The experiences of older people