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What are we learning abut developing Individual Service Funds?
- Authors:
- COOPER Owen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 14, May 2008, pp.12-16.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
An Individual Service Fund (ISF) is when someone wants to use their individual budget to buy supports from a provider. Providers can develop ISFs in two ways. They can respond to individual commissions from care managers, individuals or their family or through the commissioning process. The other is to proactively transform the block contract monies that they receive and commit to using that money in an individualised way. Ideally this would be done with the commissioner. This article describes the approaches IAS (a provider of services for people with learning disabilities in Greater Manchester) has tried in order to develop more individualised services. Their development of ISFs is a natural extension of the work that IAS has been doing to deconstruct group homes and provide individualised services. The article includes a number of short case studies and also highlights the importance of creating and reviewing support plans