Does anyone know what the current state of play is with regard to people
with more severe intellectual disabilities accessing direct
payments/individual budgets in the UK? From surveying the literature,
initially concern on the part of local authorities that difficulties in
ascertaining "informed consent" to direct payments constituted a barrier to
people with more severe intellectual getting direct payments. More recently
it looks like local authorities have moved forward in a number of ways -
either adopting more liberal definitions of what might constitute
indications of consent, or degrees of support from relatives, or by looking
a other sorts of arrangements like trusts which might take over the
administration of the direct payment.
I cant find any recent specific guidance or published work which pulls this
together or which reports how many people with more severe intellectual
disabilities are getting direct payments.
Any ideas?
Deborah
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