Personal health budgets and young people with complex needs

Authors:
GITSHAM Nicola, NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR INCLUSION
Publisher:
In Control
Publication year:
2015
Pagination:
15
Place of publication:
Wythall

This document helps commissioners and professionals develop effective strategies for implementing personal health budgets for young people aged 14-25 with complex needs. It makes suggestions for how leaders can develop strategies to minimise the impact of obstacles and strengthen the forces for change. These recommendations are encapsulated in seven top tips leaders can use to increase the number of young people with complex needs using PHB to live full lives. These are: improve information and advice, showing how PHB can help disabled people with complex needs achieve independent living; develop the workforce so that staff understand the potential of PHB and how to use them; use the statutory SEND Local Offer, as an opportunity to co-produce health and wellbeing pathways for disabled young people with complex needs aged 14-25; invest in family and young people leadership; work small and think big; using the learning form pilots to identity what needs to change in the local system across education, health and social care; plan ahead; and explore how to move from block contracts to more flexible ways of personalizing support. (Edited publisher abstract)

Subject terms:
young people, personal health budgets, complex needs, commissioning;
Content type:
practice guidance
Location(s):
United Kingdom
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