The Government Says

'...help mental health service users obtain Direct Payments to help purchase support (in lieu of MH services ) to socially include their lives better in Society' -- Paul Brian Tovey

There is a poverty of joined up quality in the NHS and Social Care agencies...

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/MHDirectPayments/

seen at 11:19, 9 August in Number 10 E-Petitions - New Petitions.

TGS