Direct Payments

What are Direct Payments?

There are two basic ways in which Social Services can provide support to enable disabled people, who need personal assistance, to live their own independent lifestyle:

Direct Payments enable disabled people to recruit, organise and pay for their own staff, enabling them to exercise choice and control over their lives, deciding who works for them, how and when.

Any disabled person who is over 16, is willing and able to manage their own personal assistance requirements and is eligible for support from Social Services.

The Direct Payments Support Workers at SCIL ensure that disabled people have the information and any support they need in applying for and using the scheme.

Hampshire (now split into 3 local authorities), was the first local authority in the country to offer disabled people money to enable them to employ their own staff to meet their own needs in their own ways. Social Services have worked with disabled people ever since to ensure that the principles of a peer-led advice, information and support services are considered integral parts of the local direct payment schemes. SCIL has been involved since it’s outset in promoting the concept of independent living, through the scheme and since 1995 in employing support workers with experience of independent living issues to promote, advise and support disabled people on the scheme and those interested in the scheme.

 

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Telephone: 023 8033 0982

Text phone: 023 8020 2649

Fax: 023 8020 2648

Address:  Unity 12, 9-19 Rose Road, Southampton, SO14 6TE

 

 

Hampshire (North) covering Aldershot / Alton / Andover / Basingstoke /Winchester is undertaken by Enham under contract to Hampshire County Council.

Enham,
Enham Place
Enham Alamein
Andover
Hampshire
SP11 6JS

Tel:01264 345862

Minicom: 01264 345862

Fax: 01264 333638

 

 

 

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