Personal budgets: whose money is it?

Author:
DUFFY Simon
Journal article citation:
Community Living, 25(4), Summer 2012, pp.18-19.
Publisher:
Hexagon Publishing

The focus of this article is direct payments, personalisation, and self-directed support for disabled people. The article argues that there were major problems with direct payments for people with learning difficulties and that self-directed support was designed to tackle these problems and create a new system for social care. It describes the work of a project called In Control from 2003 to 2009 in challenging previous practice and proposing new ways of using personal budgets, and reports that despite some improvements there are still considerable problems. The author asserts that personal budgets should belong to disabled people and their families but that there are often barriers to how they can use them, and argues that campaigning is needed to ensure further progress.

Subject terms:
learning disabilities, personal budgets, personalisation, self-directed support, service users, social care provision, direct payments, disabilities;
Location(s):
United Kingdom
Link:
Journal home page
ISSN print:
0951 9815

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