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This page tells you where you can find helpful advice.
Guides from the NCIL
The National Centre for Independent Living NCIL have some very useful guides to help you.
- Everything You Need to Know About Getting and Using Direct Payments
- Direct Payments for Mental Health Users/Survivors: A guide to some key issues
- Practical Guide for Disabled People and Carers
- Direct Routes to Independence: a guide to local authority implementation & management of Direct Payments
- Other NCIL guides
Guides from the Department of Health
The Department of Health offer free guides as downloadable PDF files, but you can also get hard copies of most guides free of charge.
- An easy guide to Direct Payments: giving you the choice and control
- Direct Payments Guidance: Community Care, Services for Carers and Children's Services (Direct Payments) Guidance
- A route to independent living
- Direct Choices: What councils need to make Direct Payments happen for people with learning disabilities