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| Making it personal | | Author(s) | Charles Leadbeater, Jamie Bartlett, Niamh Gallagher |
| Corporate Author | Demos |
| Publisher | Demos, London, 2008 |
| Pages | 105 pp |
| Source | Demos, Magdalen House, 136 Tooley Street, London SE1 2TU. Website: www.demos.co.uk http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Demos_PPS_web_A.pdf |
| Keywords | Services ; Needs [elderly] ; Finance [care] ; Social policy ; Reports. |
| Annotation | A participative approach to services, self-directed services, is advocated in this report. Self-directed services allocate budgets to individuals so that they can can have the support and services that are personalised to their needs for social care, education and health. The authors contend that self-directed services would be the best way of delivering the personalised approaches to care as set out in the concordat between government, the Local Government Association (LGA), the NHS and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), 'Putting people first' (December 2007). They compare the merits of self-directed services with those of a traditional service model; and set out the benefits to individuals and for public services as a whole. They discuss the risks: will people spend their money wisely, or is this is an inappropriate use of public money; and would such a system work for everyone (e.g. those living in rural areas)? Examples of the In Control and Individual Budgets pilots are used to indicate the extent to which "scaling up" to serve a mass market might work in practice. Appendices include comparisons of the cost of a care package before and after a personal budget in contrasting local authorities. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080201001 B |
| Classmark | I: IK: QC: TM2: 6K |
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