| Format | What the information is |
 | An Easy Guide to Direct Payments - Giving you the choice and control explains what a Direct Payment is and how you can get one. It comes with a book, CD ROM and tape.
You can order the pack from Department of Health Publications, Phone: 08701 555455, Minicom: 08700 102870 or E-mail: dh@prolog.uk.com. Please quote reference 33291 |
| Direct Choices: what councils need to make direct payments happen for people with learning disabilities
You can order it from Department of Health Publications at , Phone: 08701 555455, Minicom: 08700 102870, e-mail: dh@prolog.uk.com, Please quote reference 33715/Direct Choices |
| Here is a flyer about both the publications above |
| Here is Policy and Practice Guidance about Direct Payments. It tells Local Authorities what the government thinks the law about Direct Payments means for them, and how they should make it happen.
Direct Payments Guidance - Community Care, Services for Carers and Children's Services (Direct Payments) Guidance, England 2003 |
 | These are the rules that say that if you want a Direct Payment, and meet the criteria for one, then you should get one.
The Community Care, Services for Carers and Children's Services (Direct Payments) (England) Regulations 2003 |
| Here is a longer guide for people who might want to get a Direct Payment.
A guide to receiving Direct Payments from your local council |
| News and new papers are put onto the Department of Health Direct Payments web page. |
| Making A Difference: Direct Payments The Cabinet Office, Department of Health and Public Sector wrote this report about what should be done to make it easier for people to get Direct Payments, by removing 'red tape' |
 | Letter to help people open a bank account for their Direct Payment
This is a letter which the Deprtment of Health have got agreed with the British Banking Association. It is to help people who are getting direct payments open a bank account. |
| In the Driving Seat: direct payments for your child. A guide to Direct Payments for parents of disabled children: what they are, how to get them and where to go for help. Find it at www.scope.org.uk/issues/directpayments |
| my Money, My Way: a young person's guide to Direct Payments. Find it at www.scope.org.uk/issues/directpayments |
