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Direct Payments: Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968: Sections 12B and C - Policy and Practice Guidance

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DIRECT PAYMENTS
SOCIAL WORK (SCOTLAND) ACT 1968:SECTIONS 12B AND C
POLICY AND PRACTICE
GUIDANCE

Annex C: Other sources of information

Local authorities may also find the following publications useful sources of additional information:

Direct routes to independence: A guide to local authority implementation and management of direct payments - published by the Policy Studies Institute (1999)

Five Steps: A guide to local authorities implementing direct payments - published by Direct Payments Scotland (2002)

Five Steps: A guide to providing direct payments support services- published by Direct Payments Scotland (2002)

Everything you need to know about getting and receiving direct payments - published by the National Centre for Independent Living (3 rd edition 2001)

A guide to receiving direct payments - published by the Scottish Executive (2002)

An easy guide to receiving direct payments - published by the Department of Health (2000)

A rough guide to managing personal assistants - published by the National Centre for Independent Living

Direct Payments: the impact on choice and control for disabled people - published by the Scottish Executive (2000)

Direct what? - a study of direct payments to mental health service users - published by the Scottish Executive (2002)

Direct payments for mental health users/survivors: A guide to some key issues - published by the National Centre for Independent Living

Making decisions: best practice and new ideas for supporting people with high support needs to make decisions - published by Values Into Action (2001)

Funding freedom 2000: people with learning difficulties using direct payments - published by Values Into Action (1999)

Trusting independence: a practical guide to independent living trusts - published by Values Into Action (2001)

Ways to work - converting day services - published by SHS Trust

Your right to independent living - A guide to independent living, direct payments, ILF, and being an employer has template forms, guides on self assessment etc.- published by Lothian Centre for Integrated Living, (3rd edition summer 2002)

The same as you? - published by Scottish Executive (2000) available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/ldsr

Direct payments: frequently asked questions - published by Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability (2002) - available from Direct Payments Scotland

Creating independent futures, an evaluation of services led by disabled people - published by The Disability Press, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds (2000)

The future challenge for direct payments - published by Disability and Society, 17, 7, pp. 797-808- Carmichael, A. and Brown, L. (2002)

Social work and direct payments - published by Bristiol, Polity Press- Glasby, J. and Littlechild, R. (2002).

Direct payments: issues for service providers - published by Community Care Providers Scotland - (written by the voluntary sector) (2002)

For further details about these publications please contact Direct Payments Scotland.

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