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| Using Supporting People funding in individual budgets | | Author(s) | Kate McAllister |
| Journal title | Housing, Care and Support, vol 12, no 1, April 2009 |
| Pages | pp 25-29 |
| Source | Website: http://www.pavilionjournals.com |
| Keywords | Services ; Needs [elderly] ; Finance [care] ; Pilot. |
| Annotation | Following the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) pilot exercise, all sites remain committed to the concept of individual budgets (IBs). There are many positive stories of how IBs have made a real difference to people's lives, enabling the person-centred support and informed choices about integrated packages of care and support. There are also impressive examples of creative joint working where pilot sites have adopted pragmatic solutions and worked around obstacles wherever possible. Based on experiences to date, all the pilot sites feel that IBs have a key role to play, but they should not be considered as the only option to personalising housing-related support services and increasing choice. Commissioned Supporting People (SP) services can be responsive and person-centred, as well as providing consistent coverage over large geographical areas, and some authorities considered that commissioned SP services can work alongside IBs and promoted this model as a viable alternative. More work is needed to understand better how IBs can work together with commissioned services to deliver a seamless service. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090727204 A |
| Classmark | I: IK: QC: 4UC |
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