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Enabling risk, ensuring safety
— self-directed support and personal budgets | | Author(s) | Sarah Carr |
| Corporate Author | Social Care Institute for Excellence - SCIE |
| Publisher | Social Care Institute for Excellence, London, 2010 |
| Pages | 68 pp (Adults' services SCIE report 36) |
| Source | SCIE, Fifth floor, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5BH. www.scie.org.uk/publications/reports/report36/file... |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Independence ; At risk ; Rights [elderly] ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The Putting People First concordat (HM Government, 2007) seeks, among other things, to give people more choice and control over their social care and support services, to enable them to lead more independent and fulfilling lives. One approach is to give people a personal budget, which includes the option to have a direct payment or managed budget as the individual chooses. This report looks at some of the research findings and principles and practice concerning risk enablement in the self-directed support and personal budget process, while also recognising the wider context of adult safeguarding in social care. The aim is to build an evidence base drawn from both research and practice to indicate what could work to promote risk enablement, independence and control, while at the same time ensuring safety. The report includes an overview of findings from recent UK and international literature relating to risk enablement and safeguarding in the context of self-directed support and personal budgets. The focus is on facilitating good practice and the promotion of choice and control with older people, people with physical or sensory disabilities, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems. The report builds on the findings in 'The implementation of individual budget schemes in adult social care' (SCIE Research Briefing 20) which showed that 'perceptions of risk, legitimate use of public funds and concerns about safeguarding and duty of care need to be debated as research is showing that these are potential barriers to implementation'. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-101118001 E |
| Classmark | JH: C3: CA3: IKR: 64A |
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