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Individual budgets
— lessons from early users' experiences | | Author(s) | Parvaneh Rabiee, Nicola Moran, Caroline Glendinning |
| Journal title | British Journal of Social Work, vol 39, no 5, August 2009 |
| Pages | pp 918-935 |
| Source | http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Independence ; Services ; Usage [services] ; Physical disabilities ; Mental disorder ; Pilot. |
| Annotation | Within the context of modernisation, there has been a trend towards 'cash-for-care' schemes designed to bring choice and control closer to the service user. In England, Individual Budgets (IBs) are being piloted, with the aim of promoting personalised support for disabled people and other uses of social care services. This paper reports on the experiences and outcomes of early IB users two to three months after first being offered an IB. The users included adults with physical or sensory impairments, learning difficulties, mental health problems and older people. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with nine service uses and five proxies. The findings suggest that IBs have the potential to be innovative and life-enhancing. However, achieving this potential in practice depends on a range of other factors, including changes in the routine practices and organisational culture of adult social care services and ensuring users have access to appropriate documentation and support. Any conclusions drawn from the experiences of these early IB users must be treated with caution. The findings nevertheless indicate some of the issues that will need to be addressed as IBs are implemented more widely to replace conventional forms of adult social care provision. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090903226 A |
| Classmark | JH: C3: I: QLD: BN: E: 4UC |
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