Direct payments: the future now

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Title:	Direct payments: the future now
Author(s):	Robin Murray-Neill, (Care Services Improvement Partnership, NIMHE National Social Inclusion Programme and Personalisation Team), Pauline Heslop, Koula Serle, Hazel March, Karen
Citation:	Robin Murray-Neill, Pauline Heslop, Koula Serle, Hazel March, Karen, (2008) "Direct payments: the future now", A Life in the Day, Vol. 12 Iss: 3, pp.18 - 22
Keywords:	Direct payments, Independent living, Individual budgets, Mental health services, Self-directed support
Article type:	General review
DOI:	10.1108/13666282200800025 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Abstract:	Direct payments in mental health services have come a long way in the last few years, but are personal budgets and the increasing prominence of social care in policy terms having detrimental effects on their success? While most people agree that direct payments are a good idea, in reality less than five per cent of those eligible to use community care services actually use them. Realising the government's intention of ‘prevention, early intervention, enablement, and high quality personally tailored services’ still has a way to go.