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Consultation on direct payments regulations
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Launch date:19 August 2008
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Closing date:11 November 2008
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Creator/s:Department of Health
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Copyright holder:Crown
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Gateway number:10418
Direct payments are crucial to achieving the Government's aim to increase independence, choice and control, for service users and their carers, through allowing them the opportunity to arrange their own personalised care. The Health and Social Care Act 2008 extends the availability of direct payments to those people who lack the capacity to consent to their receipt. In addition, the government is also reviewing the current exclusions to receiving direct payments for those people who are subject to various provisions of mental health legislation in light of the modernisation of mental health law brought about by the Mental Health Act 2007. The Government is now consulting on regulations relating to these two changes.
To respond to the consultation, please download a copy of the response template and return it to the postal or email address below.
Closing date: 11 November 2008
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Contact:Extending Direct Payments
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Address:Department of Health
Social Care Policy and Innovation
Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships Directorate
Area 118, Wellington House
133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG
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Consultation response, published 19 March 2009
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