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Choice, control and individual budgets
— emerging themes | | Corporate Author | Social Care Institute for Excellence - SCIE |
| Publisher | Social Care Institute for Excellence, January 2007 |
| Pages | 11 pp (Research briefing, 20) |
| Source | Download at: http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/briefings/brie... |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Independence ; Pilot ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The development of individual budgets (IBs) in England would increase service options in ways which have been found to be very popular with many service users. They do not replace care management or direct payments (DPs), but add choice and extend autonomy. This briefing is about themes emerging from the British and international literature relating to the development of IBs for adults currently receiving services in England. These include older people, people with learning disabilities, people with physical and sensory disabilities, and with mental health needs. The briefing is specifically intended as background to the evaluation of 13 pilot individual budget schemes running in selected sites between 2006 and 2008. It also offers practical messages for service users, carers and practitioners involved in the pilots or in developing similar schemes in their areas. It comments that questions of cost-effectiveness and risk management are not yet fully dealt with in the existing literature, and that more evidence is needed about equity and service quality. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081112001 E |
| Classmark | JH: C3: 4UC: 64A |
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