New direct payments guidance
New Guidance and a public info leaflet have been issued about changes to arrangements for direct payments (where local authorities give people the cash to arrange their own care rather than fixing up packages of care themselves). This has been extended to people without capacity, for example some people with mental illnesses and learning disabilities.
The DH website guidance: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/SocialCare/Socialcarereform/Personalisation/Directpayments/DH_076522