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This document describes a project to simplify systems and improve take up of Direct Payments in Lincolnshire where its complicated and bureaucratic service was affecting DP take up. There is a summary of recommendations with analysis including the risk management approach and project management tools used.

This section highlights partnerships between health, social care, statutory, voluntary and not-for-profit organisations and commissioning and strategic planning, that improves services for carers.

In Cheshire East, the findings of local research by the Alzheimer's Society into the views of people with dementia and their families were used to inform the JSNA. The research was funded by the Central and Eastern Cheshire NHS Primary Care Trust.

This commissioning strategy for people with mental health problems living in West Berkshire incorporates Direct Payments into its framework.

This Action Plan has been compiled to address the recommendations identified in the Direct Payments Cross-cutting Research document compiled by the Essex Social Care Research in May 2006 as areas for improvement.

This document sets out the general principles in relation to Direct Payments and NHS continuing care. It provides answers to some of the more frequently asked questions.

This report is a response to the East Midlands Association of Directors of Social Services request to gather regional issues and practice around Direct Payments. It seeks to inform best practice across a number of Direct Payment themes and offers observations about continuing implementation issues.

The Gloucestershire Community & Adult Care directorate's aim is that people using Direct Payments will form the largest proportion of adults supported to live at home, across all client groups by 2010. This document outlines the directorate's strategy to achieve that goal.

Liverpool is one of six sites working with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to implement 'think child, think parent, think family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare. ' This implementation plan shows how they aim to implement the recommendations of the guide using an outcome focused and integrated approach to working with families with mental health problems.

In Blackburn with Darwin the senior carers strategy manager worked to make links between the carers strategy, Local Strategic Partnerships and Local Area Agreements and to encourage others to 'think carer' when planning. Specific suggestions were made about how draft neighbourhood plans could better support carers whilst reaching their objectives.