Direct payments and the social model of disability
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https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v12i2.451Keywords:
<i>Social model of disability</i>, <i>direct payments</i>, <i>Independent living</i>Abstract
Despite learning about the social model of disability in social work training, it is difficult to see how new workers can apply this model in practice in a care management system that seems so service-rather than needs-led. Against this background, the advent of direct payments is a major opportunity to promote choice, control and independent living at the heart of twenty-first century social care. While direct payments can seem like a challenge to the role and professional expertise of qualified social workers, they are a unique chance to deliver genuine empowerment and personcentred, needs-led approaches in a system that all too often does not let its workers strive to achieve these goals.
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