Direct Payments
Definition: Direct Payments are means-tested payments made to service users in lieu of community care services they have been assessed as needing, and are intended to give users greater choice in their care. The money received should be enough to meet a person's assessed care needs. Direct Payments have been available since 1997 and are made to a wide variety of people, including carers, adult service users and people with short-term needs. Direct Payments are not the only way a person can
have control over their care service funding.
Someone else can hold the money for them
- a family member or other representative, a
trust, an organisation, or a Care Manager. See also Budgets - Personal, Budget - Managed, Budget - Individual and Indirect Payments.
Category: adult social care
Credit: Department of Health
Source:
Glossary of Adult Social Care Terms
Services mentioning Direct Payments
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Bridgend use an agency (People Plus - see elsewhere).
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Cardiff use Dewis CIL for their agency support for Direct Payments recipients.
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Carmarthenshire currently use Diverse Cymru to manage Direct Payments on behalf of clients. (See Diverse Cymru)
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Ceredigion currently provides its support through Diverse Cymru (see elsewhere).
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. The Rowan Organisation provide agency support in Conwy.
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. The Rowan Organisation provides agency support in Denbighshire.
Diverse Cymru provide a comprehensive
Direct Payments service in Cardiff. The service helps you to manage your payments and offers support with your needs and responsibilities as an employer.
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Gwynedd uses The Rowan Organisation to manage Direct Payments.
Provides
advice on getting
direct payments, including information on:individual budgets/
personalisation; funding from social services in relation to the care needs of the
disabled; the appeals process; general advice on employing personal assistants
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Merthyr uses Dewis CIL to manage DP.
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Direct Payments in Monmouthshire are managed by GAVO.
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. NPT uses the following approved suppliers to provide DP support: Diverse Cymru; The Rowan Organisation; Compass Independent Living; ILBP; My Care, My Home; People Plus.
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Agency used: Diverse Cymru.
Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot make use of People Plus to manage
Direct Payments.
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Agency used: Dewis CIL
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Agency used: Compass Independent Living.
The Rowan Organisation provides a wide range of support services created to help you manage your
Direct Payments. This can include: supporting you to decide whether to employ a
Personal Assistant (PA) or to use other services; support with setting up the scheme; support with paperwork required by the scheme; support with finding and recruiting staff; providing you with information and
advice on the legal requirements of being an employer.
Torfaen has an active
Direct Payments User Group which meet every 8 weeks at Canalside, Five Locks Road, Pontnewydd. If you are receiving Direct Payments, about to receive them or want to know more about them then why not come along to the next meeting. The Group discuss issues about Direct Payments, you get the chance to meet other
service users and find out more about Direct Payments.
Direct Payments enable people assessed as requiring
Social Care services to purchase their own care and support. Agency used: Penderels Trust
