Daisy Bogg summarises a qualitative study of professional and client experiences of indirect payments under the Mental Capacity Act.
[read the full story...]Indirect Payments: when the MCA interacts with the personalisation agenda
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Direct payments in context: empowerment and quality of relationships
Martin Stevens on a qualitative study of how direct payments affects the relationships between employer and carer.
[read the full story...]Power and powerlessness: Mental health practitioner and service user perspectives on personal budgets
Martin Stevens examines a study on mental health service user and practitioner experiences of personal budgets and finds that power and attitudes remain important factors.
[read the full story...]A Suitable Person: An insider perspective finds conflict between parent-carers and practitioners
Earlier this year, we posted about a study which showed positive outcomes being achieved by suitable persons for individuals lacking capacity to consent to direct payments.
Here Alex Leeder, who blogged about this study, looks at the views of parent-carers who have fulfilled the role of ‘suitable person’ – an ‘insider’ perspective.
[read the full story...]Supporting choice? Older people and personal budgets
Martin Stevens examines research into how councils are implementing personal budgets for older people and has important questions about supporting choice.
[read the full story...]Direct Payments: Are they working well for people with learning disabilities or dementia who lack mental capacity to consent?
Alex Leeder looks at the experiences of using ‘indirect’ payments in a qualitative study of the experiences of practitioners and ‘suitable’ people.
[read the full story...]Policy impacts on home care services for older people
Mike Clark provides a timely commentary on research into the impact of personalisation on home care services for older people and finds inherent tensions between choice, competition and the desire for improving the relational aspects of direct care.
[read the full story...]Direct payments, dementia and 'suitable persons'
Jeanne Carlin examines a study looking at how direct payments to ‘suitable persons’ might work for people with dementia, their carers and practitioners.
[read the full story...]What works for whom in support planning by ULOs?
Gerry Bennison explores a study on support planning by user led organisations and wonders about the implications for personalisation and equality of access to social care and support.
[read the full story...]Adult social care personal budgets: the complexity of control
In our second blog exploring research on personal budgets, Mike Clark dissects the biggest national survey of social care personal budget users and finds that a seemingly simple policy idea is complex in its operation and discovers some ideas about organising this complexity to meet individual needs and improve outcomes.
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