Direct Payments: Resources

Useful links to resources related to Direct Payments.

SCIE

• Resource Guide 05: Direct Payments: answering frequently asked questions available to view from their website

• Skills for Care South West: A Guide for People on Direct Payments who wish to employ a P.A. available in full or easy read.
  To download the full version click here.
  To download the easy-read version click here.

• Research Report - Employment Aspects and Workforce Implications of Direct Payments. The results of the first ever large-scale study of recipients of direct payments in their role as employers. Available to download from the Skills for Care New Types of Worker website

THE AUDIT COMMISSION

• has published guidance on Individual Budgets and Direct Payments for appointed auditors. Click here for more information

THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF TAXATION

• published a report in January 2008; Independent Living, Direct Payments and the Tax System.
  Click here to download.

THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

• A guide to receiving direct payments from your local council. A route to independent living, the latest version March 2008. Click here to download

• An easy guide to direct payments from the Department of Health can be downloaded from the publications section of their website www.dh.gov.uk/publications
  

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