Direct Payments: Too risky to champion?

The Reinvigorating Direct Payments event series is a partnership between Think Local Act Personal and the Department of Health and Social Care.

Direct Payments provide choice and control, but can come with risks – both perceived and real. In this webinar, we’ll be exploring the ways we can balance risk while supporting people to live their life their way.

You will:

• Hear from a Direct Payment recipient from the National Co-production Advisory Group about why practitioners’ approaches to balancing risk and empowerment are important to them and how they can affect a person’s life
• Hear perspectives of safeguarding leads working to support frontline practitioners
• Learn about how risks arising from the personalisation of care and support manifest in people's lives
• Explore the impact of risk management on the care and support that people receive – particularly in the context of Direct Payments, employing and managing Personal Assistants and contracting with self-employed workers
• Have the opportunity to ask questions to a panel of Direct Payment recipients, safeguarding leads, and representatives from the Department of Health and Social Care

This event is aimed at:

• Social care practitioners undertaking assessments and creating care and support plans
• People who use Direct Payments
• Social care staff involved in providing support to Direct Payment recipients
• Commissioners
• IT, finance and legal staff in local authorities who work with social care teams promoting Direct Payments