A report of a research project into Intensive Support Schemes for direct payment. The first and most recent study of direct payment support schemes nationally, the report highlights some of the more intensive direct payments support service options available.Free of charge

This booklet answers the questions likely to be asked about direct payments by mental health service users/ survivors and addresses some of the key issues that mental health users/ survivors might face when thinking about requesting direct payments.


Non-Members: £4.00
Members: £3.00

"Having PAs enabled me to find out who I am and now enables me to be who I am." If you are a disabled person and about to start receiving a Direct Payment to employ your own personal assistants (PAs), this book aims to give you a flavour of what it is like; the joys and the challenges. The book covers recruitment, managin, using PAs in social situations and at work, and dealing with problems. Put together by Sian Vasey with cartoons by David Shenton.

Non-Members: £5.50
Members: £4.40

A 30 minute video or DVD which covers the essential aspects of managing a PA set up, including recruitment, supervision and contracts. A useful training tool Produced and Directed by Sian Vasey.

Non-Members: £7.50
Members £6.00

Breaking Barriers Video: A Direct Payments video produced by Equalities, aimed at disabled people from the black and minority ethnic communities. £15.00 (inc p+p) for stutory organisations, £10 (inc p+p). Also available as a DVD and with the following language subtitles; English, Urdu, Hindu and Somali.

A guide for families with disabled children, giving guidance for organisations/ individuals who assist them with support. Copies cost £8.00 +£1.25 p&p from
Circles Network tel: 01788 816 671

accounting.circles@btconnect.com

The video follows ten individuals in Scotland who receive a direct payment. They discuss how they receive a pyment, how they use it to meet their assessed need, and how they manage the payments.

To order:
E-mail: infor@dpscotland.org.uk
Tel: 0131 558 5200
£4.00 for individuals
£10.00 for organisations

Set of Information Briefings:

If you are planning to become a mum or dad you'll find yourself thinking through a lot of practical things before you take that huge step which changes your life for ever. Where can you get the information and advice you need? Disabled Parents Network has written a series of ten briefings containing lots of useful information and support.

The Briefings are now available as either A5 booklets which come a slipcase or on CD. They are free to individual disabled parents and are also available to organisations of disabled people, CABs and other advice outlets for a donation of £25.00 towards printing, postage and packaging.

Disabled Parents Briefings Order
FREEPOST NATW964
Loughborough,
LE12 6ER
Tel: 0870 241 0450
E-mail: information@disabledparentsnetwork.org

Produced by Greenwich Centre for Independent Living, PAMS - Limited Edition
Price £40.00 + £5.00 carriage (UK)

Trafalgar Road,
Greenwich
London
SE10 9EQ
Tel: 0208 305 2221
Website: www.gad.org.uk

Direct payment and Mental Heal Users/ Survivors Edited by Deborah Davidson and Laura Luckhurst (NCIL) available from the Joseph Rowntreee Foundation

Website: www.jrf.org.uk

Direct Payments and Mental Health: new directions by Karen Newbigging with Janice Lowe.

This is a review of how take-up of direct payments by people experiencing mental health problems can be increased. Published by The Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

£15.95 + £4.95 p&p
Tel: 01273 623 222
Website: www.jrf.org.uk

Available from National Family and Parenting Institute
Tel: 0207 474 3460
Fax: 0207 485 3590
e-mail : info@familyandparenting.org
Website: www.familyandparenting.org

'More than you would think', published by York Publishing Services

£19.95 (incl p&p)
Tel: 01904 430 033
Website: www.jrf.org.uk

A guide to Local Authority Implementation & Management of Direct Payments, by Frances Hasler, Jane Campbell & Gerry Zarb 1999.
Published by the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) Offers detailed practical information covering all aspects of running a direct payments scheme.

£10.00 (+£2.00 p&p)
All orders and enquiries to:
Central Books
99 Wallis Road
London
E9 5LN
Tel: 0208 986 4854

A Young Person's Guide to Direct Payments
A Scope Publication.

For more information
Tel: 0207 619 7342
E-mail: publications@scope.org.uk
www.scope.org.uk

A video by Standing Order Conference of Voluntary Organisations Wales (SCOVO)

Non-Members: £8.00
Members: £6.50

Contact:
SCOVO,
5, Dock Chambers,
Bute Street,
Cardiff,
CF10 5AG
Tel: 02920 492443
E-mail: enquiries@scovo.org.uk

Direct Payments for People with Learning Difficulties. Published by Values into Action.

£8.95 (+£1.50 p+p)
Values into Action
Oxford House
Derbyshire Street
London
E2 6HG
Tel: 0207 729 5436
www.viauk.org

Produced by Direct Payments Service, the West of England Centre for Inclusive Living (WECIL Ltd. www.wecil.co.uk)

£10.00 (+£5.00 p+p) Disabled people and Organisations of Disabled people.
£20.00 (+£5.00 p+p) to all others.

A guide to receiving direct payments from your local council : a route to independent living
Published: 31 August 2007
This guide offers advice to people who are thinking about or who are already getting direct payments from their local council social services department.

Independence, choice and risk: a guide to best practice in supported decision making
Published: 25 May 2007
It aims to support the principle of empowerment through managing choice and risk transparently in order to enable fair appraisal of the decision process, should it become necessary

Increasing the uptake of direct payments
Published: 21 December 2006
'Our health, our care, our say' identifies direct payments as key to personalised services. The Department of Health and the Care Services Improvement Partnership have published this guide to help councils and their partners identify solutions to the process, policy and procedural issues as part of the programme to increase uptake of direct payments.

Direct payments uptake project: an easy words leaflet
Published: 22 March 2007
This guide is to help people with direct payments work with councils to make sure more people get direct payments

An easy guide to Direct Payments: giving you the choice and control
Published: October 2004
A guide to Direct Payments aimed at people with learning disabilities.

All of the above listed titles are available for download from the Department of Health website at:

www.dh.gov.uk

CSIP has worked with the Department of Health to produce a 12 page plain English booklet about LINks called "LINks Explained". It is particularly aimed at people who use services and their families who are already involved in some way with the Patient and Public Involvement agenda. It is also aimed at the broader voluntary sector and anyone who is interested, knows a bit already, but doesn't want all the technical details.

This item is free to download

The aim of this guidance is to assist local councils in making direct payments. Together with the
Annexes, it also provides guidance on how local councils might manage and administer direct payments. It is also useful to people receiving direct payments to be able to check if they are unsure if thier local authority operating under the guidance. You can download it from the Department of Health Website www.dh.gov.uk/publications.

This book has been written to assist anyone who is thinking about, or is using, a direct payment. It has been largely based on an original publication called 'Everything you need to know about getting and using direct payments' first produced by NCIL nearly 10 years ago.

It has been updated and reviewed to reflect the current policy and practice and includeds information about new initiatives.

It is written with the intention of supplying information that you may need to know to help you make decisions and understand your rights in relation to direct payments.

We have also included other information that you may find useful and that is connected in someway to direct payments and independent living.