Contents

pp iii-v

List of tables and boxes

pp vi-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-xii

one - Introduction

pp 1-16

Section 1 - Setting the scene

pp 17-18

two - An overview of the implementation and development of direct payments

pp 19-32

three - Direct payments in Scotland

pp 33-48

four - North American approaches to individualised planning and direct funding

pp 49-62

Section 2 - Policy into practice

pp 63-64

five - Direct payments and autonomy: issues for people with learning difficulties

pp 65-78

six - “It’s meant that, well, I’m living a life now”: older people’s experience of direct payments

pp 79-94

seven - “Direct what?” Exploring the suitability of direct payments for people with mental health problems

pp 95-110

eight - Overcoming barriers to the take-up of direct payments by parents of disabled children

pp 111-122

Section 3 - Voices of experience

pp 123-124

nine - Voices of experience: The freedom of direct payments

pp 125-142

Section 4 - Reporting from the field

pp 143-144

ten - Implementing direct payments: a support organisation perspective

pp 145-148

eleven - The Direct Payments Development Fund

pp 149-158

twelve - An experience of the Direct Payments Development Fund

pp 159-170

thirteen - Carers and direct payments

pp 171-186

Section 5 - Working with direct payments

pp 187-188

fourteen - “It’s not like being at work”: a study to investigate stress and job satisfaction in employees of direct payments users

pp 189-204

fifteen - Direct payments and the employment relationship: some insights from cross-national research

pp 205-220

sixteen - Can intensive support widen access to direct payments?

pp 221-236

seventeen - Care managers and direct payments

pp 237-250

Section 6 - Developments in direct payments

pp 251-252

eighteen - Direct payments and health

pp 253-268

nineteen - The future of direct payments

pp 269-284

twenty - Holding the dream: direct payments and independent living

pp 285-292