Schemes Providing Support to People Using Direct Payments: A UK Survey

Abstract

This report sets out the main findings from a survey of schemes providing support to direct payment users. The survey represented the combined efforts of three multidisciplinary research teams involved in national studies of direct payments: a team from the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); a team from the Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow; and a team from the Health and Social Care Advisory Service (HASCAS), the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (FPLD) at the Mental Health Foundation and the Health Service Management Centre (HSMC) at the University of Birmingha