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Personal Health Budget Update October 2008

Initial Information

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Personalisation, Self-Directed Support and Individual Budgets

Individual Budgets and Personalisation may herald a significant change for Local Authorities, older people and the voluntary sector.

The following links may help to explain Individual Budgets and particularly, help to define some of the terminology used and the philosophy behind individual budgets.

If you would like more information about how the older people’s voluntary sector in Leeds is involved in Individual Budgets, please contact Caroline Starkey at the Forum.

Glossary of terms

http://www.bettercaring.com/editorial/channel3.aspx?id=2206

Personalisation toolkit, CSIP May 2008

www.toolkit.personalisation.org.uk

An online resource to support councils to begin to plan and deliver the transformation of their social care systems. It will also be of interest to partner organisations.

Putting People First, December 2007

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_081118

This sets out the government’s intention of large scale reform of adult social care to a more personalised system that supports choice, independence and dignity. A ministerial concordat or agreement across central and local government, it outlines the shared aims and values which will guide the changes.

In Control

www.in-control.org.uk

In Control is a partnership between families, individuals, services, local authorities, government and many other organisations. Their mission is to play a key role in creating a new system of social care, in which people will control their support, their money and their lives as valued citizens. Their website contains lots of information and tools, and sets out a new model for support.

Department of Health

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/SocialCare/Socialcarereform/Personalisation/index.htm

Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)

http://networks.csip.org.uk/personalisaion/index.cfm

These websites have an overview of personalisation, plus key policy documents and links.

Evaluation of the Individual Budgets pilot programme: final report, October 2008

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_089505

The Individual Budgets pilot programme was a cross-government initiative led by the Department of Health working closely with the Department for Work and Pensions, and Communities and Local Government. The pilot was conducted over two years 2006-2007 involving 13 local authorities.

The report was written by a combined team from The University of York, Manchester University, LSE, University of Kent and Kings College London. They were collectively called The Individual Budgets Evaluation Network (IBSEN).

National Centre for Independent Living

www.ncil.org.uk

NCIL is a national support, advice and consultancy organisation that aims to enable disabled people to be equal citizens. The website is a resource on independent living, direct payments and individual budgets.

Leeds City Council, direct payments

www.leeds.gov.uk – search for “Direct payments” in the A-Z index

Direct payments are local council payments for people who have been assessed as needing help from social care and who would like to arrange and pay for their own care and support services instead of receiving them directly from the council.

Inclusion Glasgow

http://www.inclusion-glasgow.org.uk/aboutus.asp

This organisation has been one of the leading influences on the personalisation agenda, operating from an anti-institutional and service brokerage perspective. They support people in the Glasgow area to live independently and aim to give them as much power as possible in planning their lives.

Personalisation: a rough guide, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) October 2008

http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/reports/report20.asp

The story so far about the personalisation of adult social care services. It sets out SCIE’s understanding of personalisation at a very early stage of implementation, exploring what personalisation is, where the idea came from and placing the transformation of adult social care in the wider public service reform agenda.

DH Update & initial info on Personal health budgets, Oct 2008 (in Workstreams/personalisation)