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Direct payments

A direct payment is a cash payment allowing clients to buy their own support instead of Social Services providing it. The money can be used to employ a personal assistant or to use an agency to provide staff for you. A client can 'mix and match' and have some support provided by Social Services and take some as a direct payment. Recent 'Self-directed care' schemes have involved managing adult social care in general on the basis of the individual choosing their care package based on a fixed budget.

Satisfies these needs:

1. Care at home
2. Social care - co-operating generally
3. Social care - co-operating in specific cases
4. Social care - direct payments for adult without capacity
5. Social care - direct payments for adults with capacity
6. Social care - promoting individual wellbeing
7. Social care - provision of advice and information
8. Social services - direct payments