How the Carers and Direct Payments Act (NI) 2002 supports informal carers
- Created by: orlamaisie
- Created on: 23-03-22 14:52
View mindmap
- How the Carer's and Direct Payments Act (NI) 2002 supports informal carers
- Places a requirement on Trusts inform carers of their right to a carer's assessment and gives Trusts the power to supply services directly to carers to help the carer in their caring role. This assessment can be carried out where the person cared for has refused an assessment or the provision of personal social services
- Allows Trusts to make direct payments to carers aged 16 and over for the services that meet thier own assessed needs; to poeple with parental responsibility for disabled children; to disabled people with parental responsibility for a child; and to 16-17 year old disabled children for services that meet their own assessed needs
- Enables an HSS Trust to provide servies directly to carers following a carer's assessment. A decision is taken as to whether the carer has any needs in relation to the care that they provide for the person cared for. The HSS Trust must then decide whether or not it can provide services to meet those needs
- Empowers an HSS Trust to provide any services that in its view will help the carer care for the person cared for. These services may take the form of physical help e.g. assistance around the house, or other forms of support such as training or counselling for the carer
- Provides carers with the opportunity to request respite care for the service users - this allows them to have a break from caring which may help to relieve stress associated with providing effective informal care. Allows HSS Trusts to issue vouchers for short-term breaks.
- Vouchers enable the carer or person cared for to arrange for someone to provide services for them, in place of the care which would other wise have been provided to them by the carer while the carer takes a break from the caring role. Vouchers are expressed in terms of money or for the delivery of a service for a period of time or both
- Provides carers with the right to have an assessment of their own ability to provide care which means that any assessment must ensure that the individual providing care is up to the role. This assessment will enable HSS Trusts to decide what services, if any, should be provided direct to the carer
- Enables carers to be paid for work that they do and it recognises the contribution made by informal carers which for many years was ignored and neglected by government thus attaching some value to the work they do
Comments
No comments have yet been made