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What would I want from a support planner?
- Author:
- TONER Liam
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 26(4), 2013, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The question provides an interesting way to look at the role of the support-planner and the support plan itself. The author, who has worked as a support planner and has helped members of his family to use personal budgets, describes what his dream support planner would be like. (Edited publisher abstract)
How involving families can transform lives
- Author:
- MURRAY Pippa
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 26(3), 2013, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The Family Leadership approach to personalisation encourages the whole family to be involved in the development of personalisation to ensure that it meets the individual's and the families needs. Drawing on the work of three projects the article explores some practical ways in which it is progressing. The projects highlighted include the Bury Parent Forum; the Our Lives, Our Way project in Sheffield; and The Pass it On parent group in Newcastle. (Original abstract)
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.
The ILF-a cut too far?
- Author:
- COHEN Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 25(3), Spring 2012, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author describes her experiences as an assessor for the Independent Living Fund and her concern that local authorities in the UK will not be able to plug the gap its closure will leave. The ILF was set up to make discretionary payments to people with extremely high support needs; an innovative early example of direct payment. The purpose of the ILF is unchanged, although some administrative arrangements and eligibility criteria have changed. From 1993 local authorities have been required to contribute as part of combined funding. In May 2010 the ILF was closed to new applicants. While acknowledging that there are problems with the ILF model and the operation of two funding streams, the author believes that the ILF offers extremely good value for money. Particular strengths of the ILF are its ring-fenced budget and depth of understanding of the needs clients for whom conventional services are inappropriate. Despite the personalisation agenda, many authorities are struggling to meet the individual needs of their clients. The author concludes that the current consultation on the future of the adult social care must find a system at least as good as the ILF to support good quality care and independence for this relatively small group of disabled people with very high needs.
Can support brokerage remedy the imbalance of power between citizens and the state?
- Author:
- SOWERBY Des
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 24(4), 2011, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Many government policy ideas from recent years have centred around the notion of people taking control of the own lives, living how they want. Support brokerage was one way of helping this happen. Support brokers are independent guides to make sure people can live the life they choose if you they are a disabled person, older person or family carer. Support brokerage started as part of the In Control movement, now called self-directed support, building upon earlier efforts to promote independent living. One of the pilots was in Essex, which explored how to put support brokerage into practice. This article examines the background to support brokerage, and discusses some of the controversies that have since been uncovered.
The legal framework of personalisation
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 24(1), Autumn 2010, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Both central and local government has, in recent years, done much to transform adult social care in England. These improvements include personalisation, common resource allocation, ordinary residence, direct payments, mental capacity and access to care. The subject of resource allocation has, in particular, occupied the courts. This article, using recent case history, examines the legal principles of assessment and support planning. It discusses wants verses needs, before highlighting what a client can buy with respect to care services. It explores the decision making process in practice and principle, and notes that decision makers must address any human rights affected by those decisions. In ending, the article outlines the duty to give reasons for all decisions by local authorities.
Assessing needs requires an element of human judgement
- Author:
- COLLINGE Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 23(4), 2010, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author reflects on the current approach to assessing needs using a tariff system, arguing that people with severe learning disabilities who need support deserve more than those who need help in the declining years. As personal budgets allow both the elderly and those with learning disabilities to have a greater say in the services provided to them, an attempt is being made to remove the subjectivity and judgement out of the needs assessment process. With more measurements in place, factors such as the ability to maintain hygiene, prepare food, take medicine and remain safe are key indicators used to assess needs. However, the author suggests that it is wrong to completely eliminate the human and political judgement from the assessment process, and we should not replace it with measurements and pseudo-scientific data.
A cautious revolution in health care?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 22(4), 2009, p.15.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
There are plans to introduce Personal Health Budgets, initially as pilot projects, for some health services such as long-term care. This article provides a brief overview of how they could be used, how they would work, and what the benefits could be.
Glimmers of good news alongside unimaginative services
- Authors:
- HENWOOD Melanie, HUDSON Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 22(3), Spring 2009, pp.17-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The authors examine some of the obstacles to the widespread introduction of personalised adult social care, especially in relation to people with multiple and complex needs. They draw on the findings of recent evaluations of individual budgets.