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Evaluation of the Individual Budgets pilot programme
— summary report | | Author(s) | Caroline Glendinning, David Challis, José-Luis Fernández |
| Corporate Author | Individual Budgets Evaluation Network - IBSEN; Social Policy Research Unit - SPRU, University of York |
| Publisher | Social Policy Research Unit, University of York - Electronic format, York, 2008 |
| Pages | 60 pp |
| Source | The Publications Office, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, Heslington, York Y010 5DD. Link to download: http://php.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/pubs/adult.php |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Independence ; Pilot ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Individual Budgets (IBs) were first proposed in the report, 'Improving the life of chances of disabled people' (Cabinet Office Strategy Unit, 2005), and repeated in the Green Paper, 'Independence, well-being and choice' (Cm 6499). IBs were piloted as a new way of providing support for older and disabled adults and people with mental health problems eligible for publicly funded social care. The Department of Health (DH) set up IB pilot projects in 13 English local authorities which ran November 2005 to December 2007. The DH commissioned IBSEN to conduct this evaluation, which is the first robust UK study of the implementation and impact of personalisation approaches to social care. This summary report outlines the methods and the user sample. It comments on: the outcomes for individual service users; costs and cost-effectiveness; the funding streams used; eligibility, assessment and resource allocation; support planning and brokerage; risk and risk management; the workforce, providers and commissioners; and IBs and the interface with NHS planning and services. Discussion includes how we can understand the outcome findings for differing groups of services users. Although the DH has already announced extending personalisation across adult social care in England, the evaluation highlights policy issues for policy and practice that run counter to the IBs concept, such as Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) and charging policies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081024201 E |
| Classmark | JH: C3: 4UC: 4C |
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