Occupational justice in direct-funded attendant services: Possibilities and constraints

In direct-funded attendant services, public funds are transferred to service users to recruit, hire, train, and manage support staff. An outcome of activist efforts to deinstitutionalize support services, direct funding models are often said to increase the choice and control that disabled people have in their attendant services and in everyday life. Focusing on one direct funding program in Ontario, Canada, the overarching reflexive …