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Personalisation through individual budgets
— does it work and for whom? | | Author(s) | Ann Netten, Karen Jones, Martin Knapp |
| Journal title | British Journal of Social Work, vol 42, no 8, December 2012 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, December 2012 |
| Pages | pp 1556-1573 |
| Source | www.bjsw.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Independence ; Services ; Community care. |
| Annotation | In England, personal budgets are being implemented at a time of financial austerity. They are part of a growing trend internationally to give users of publicly funded social care and support more choice and control. In the individual budgets (IB) pilot, people were allocated and had control over the way their IB was managed and spent, offering the opportunity to explore the potential of IBs to deliver better outcomes for people than conventional services and support. The authors describe how they measured outcomes, the effects they found, and how these varied between and within service user groups. For some groups there were clear benefits from IBs. However, it should not be a "one size fits all" approach; and if the potential benefits are to be achieved, it is also important to consider how best to respond to the particular challenges for older people, the effects on social work practice, and resource implications. Social workers may find themselves implementing a policy with considerable potential, but which may prove very difficult to achieve in the current financial climate. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130104202 A |
| Classmark | JH: C3: I: PA |
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