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  • Personalisation and Direct Payments Strategy Launch

    Personalisation and Direct Payments Strategy Launch

    10 May 2023

    Tell Sheffield City Council and the Direct Payments Support Service what you think about Direct Payments and what ideas you have to make things better at the Personalisation and Direct Payments Strategy Launch Event taking place on Thursday 18th May between 10am-2pm at St Mary’s Church.

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  • Free Direct Payments Workshops

    Free Direct Payments Workshops

    14 November 2022

    We have put together a FREE short online information workshop in November and December – just an hour at the most – aimed at everyone who works in community-based groups and organisations, to find out more about what Direct Payments is and how it might help people you work with/for.

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  • Your Views Sought for Radio 4 Social Care Programme

    Your Views Sought for Radio 4 Social Care Programme

    17 May 2021

    What have been your experiences of social care at home during lockdown and would you be willing to share them with BBC Radio 4 for a programme about social care during the pandemic due to be screened on Sunday June 6th ?

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  • Direct Payments Survey

    Direct Payments Survey

    05 January 2021

    Sheffield City Council has asked us to conduct a survey to help them improve the direct payments system. They want people who use direct payments to say what they think about what works well and what doesn’t. They want to find out from people who don’t use direct payments about the barriers to taking them up and any barriers that might affect take-up by particular groups of people. Please fill in our survey to help shape the future of direct payments in Sheffield.The survey is open until 25th January 2021.

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  • What does the Future of Direct Payments in Sheffield look like?

    What does the Future of Direct Payments in Sheffield look like?

    04 November 2020

    Disability Sheffield is looking for your experiences, views, knowledge and insights about direct payments in Sheffield to help develop good support and ways of working for people using direct payments. We want to gather information in several ways and we are looking for people to share with us a direct payment ‘diary’, attend focus groups, complete a survey and get involved in the project board .

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  • Government Guidance for People Receiving Direct Payments

    Government Guidance for People Receiving Direct Payments

    24 April 2020

    This long awaited guidance is for people receiving a direct payment, a personal budget or personal health budget. It includes Frequently asked Questions and Answers, mostly aimed at direct payment holders, that directly responds to questions and concerns previously raised by direct payment holders, personal assistants, and charities and organisations that support them.

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  • Individual Employer and PAs: Coronavirus FAQs

    Individual Employer and PAs: Coronavirus FAQs

    09 April 2020

    Our new information sheet for individual employers and PAs contains guidance based on some of the questions we are being asked at Disability Sheffield by people who employ their own PAs. The outbreak of Coronavirus is a public health issue and as such certain precautions need to be taken by both employer and employee and both parties need to be aware in these difficult circumstances of their employment duties and rights.

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  • South Yorkshire Teaching Partnership Direct Payment Project Focus Group

    04 March 2019

    Doncaster Council has been commissioned by the South Yorkshire Teaching Partnership to undertake a piece of research to identify best practice for Local Authorities offering Direct Payments to adults in England. If you receive a direct payment you can contribute to discussions at a focus group on Monday 18th March from 11am to 12 noon at St Mary’s Church, Bramall Lane.

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