Guides from the NCIL

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This page tells you about the guides you can get from the National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL).

Everything You Need to Know About Getting and Using Direct Payments

This is a guide by the National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL). It gives you:

  • up-to-date information about getting and using Direct Payments
  • examples of where a direct payment can be used to help in real life situations
  • many examples of administrative paperwork, such as job application forms and contracts of employment

The guide is available as a booklet, in braille and on disk and audio tape.

Find out how to order from the NCIL

Direct Payments for Mental Health Users/Survivors: A guide to some key issues

This guide is available online at the NCIL website or as a printed guide.

Direct Routes to Independence: a guide to local authority implementation & management of Direct Payments

This book offers detailed practical information covering all aspects of running a Direct Payments scheme. It was written by Frances Hasler, Jane Campbell and Gerry Zarb and published by the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) and the NCIL.

The price for this book is £10 plus £1.50 p&p. To order, please contact Central Books:

Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN

Tel: 020 8986 4854

Other NCIL guides

There is more information about NCIL publications on their website.

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