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In control
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 114, January 2010, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Ellen Goodey, who has a learning disability, briefly describes how she uses her individual budget to help her get the support she needs to live the life she wants. Two years ago she began to use her budget to hire a job coach who has helped her establish herself as a performing artist and disability inclusion trainer. The job coach helps her to think about what she wants to do and to make the connections. He also ensures that she gets paid as a professional for the work she does, as people often assume she will work for free.
Do anything you wanna do
- Author:
- MORSE Charlotte
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, September 2008, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author describes how her son, Ben, who has learning disabilities, used the 'Choice and Control' pilot to obtain and individual budget. She explains how they found the process, including self-assessment and recruiting personal assistants, and the improvements to Ben's quality of life.
Making it personal for everyone: from block contracts towards individual service funds
- Authors:
- SCOWN Steve, SANDERSON Helen
- Publisher:
- Dimensions
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 126p.
- Place of publication:
- Stockport
Dimensions is a not-for-profit organisation which supports people with learning disabilities and people with autism, including providing "traditional" care services such as residential care homes. In the context of the personalisation agenda, Dimensions considered how it could help people in traditional services take control of their funding and determine and control their own support. This book is designed to share learning about how the organisation changed its services and practice. It covers the testing of new approaches in an existing home for people with learning disabilities, financial aspects, personalisation and the person-centred approach, providing "just enough support", implementation, and impact on service users. It also reviews what the organisation learnt and top tips for other providers facing similar challenges.
Doing it your way: the story of self-directed support in Worcestershire
- Authors:
- PITTS Jenny, SOAVE Vivien, WATERS John
- Publisher:
- Worcestershire County Council. Social. Learning Disability Service
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Worcester
The 'Doing it your Way' partnership, made up of Worcestershire's Learning Disability Service, the British Institute of Learning Disabilities and Mencap, was set up to provide independent advice and guidance to help local people in Worcestershire make best use of their personal budgets. This report presents an evaluation of the service and the impact of personal budgets on how people were able to live their lives. Short case studies of people using personal budgets are included.
Taking things personally
- Author:
- FAWCETT Edd
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, November 2008, pp.16-19.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
'Personalisation' of social care services is an key component of government policy. This article briefly looks at the development of the strategy and discusses whether it is working in practice for people with learning disabilities. Two short case studies are provided to highlight the benefits personalisation.
Canadian specific
- Author:
- ROSE Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.3.94, 1994, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Despite changes to encourage self advocacy and user involvement in services most disabled people remain the passive recipients of services which have been assessed by others. Explains how, in Canada, service brokerage and individualised funding has given people with learning difficulties control over their situation, enabling them to satisfy their needs as they see fit.
“It's like two roles we're playing”: parent perspectives on navigating self‐directed service programs with adult children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- BROWN Melissa, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(4), 2018, pp.350-358.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Publicly funded self‐directed budgets for purchasing community‐based long‐term services and supports for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) have become a wide‐spread service model in the United States and internationally. The current study aims to understand parents' experiences in navigating self‐directed support programmes with their adult child with IDD. The authors utilised qualitative content analysis of interviews with 26 parents of adult children with IDD enrolled in self‐directed budget programmes in five U.S. states. Twenty‐four parents reported numerous programmatic barriers to person‐centred supports falling within three thematic areas: administrative issues, budgeting challenges, and inadequate supports. Parents of adult children with IDD value self‐directed supports, although programmes cannot cover all possible independent living needs due to a number of factors, including unavailability of desired supports, programme rules, or budget limitations. As practices vary by programme, the author's research suggests approaches from different programmes that families may find helpful. (Edited publisher abstract)
Ambiguity in practice? carers' roles in personalised social care in England
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, MITCHELL Wendy, BROOKS Jenni
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 23(1), 2015, pp.23-32.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Carers play an ambiguous role within the personalisation paradigm currently shaping adult social care practice in England. Although carers have rights to assessments and support in their own right, these rights sit uneasily alongside the practices of assessment, support planning and personal budget (PB) allocation for older and disabled people. This paper reports how 14 dyads of older and learning disabled people with cognitive and/or communication impairments and their carers viewed the roles – desired and actual – played by carers in PBs. Interviews with carers and with older and disabled people were conducted during 2012 as part of a wider study into carers' roles in assessment, support planning and managing PBs. The interviews complemented a survey of reported practice in two English regions – interviews with adult social care services senior managers and focus groups with front-line care managers. Talking Mats© were used to support interviews with some service users. Interviews were transcribed and data analysed using the Framework approach. The interviews indicated that carers played important roles in service users' assessments and support planning, but were less likely to report receiving assessments or support of their own. While carers had the potential to benefit from PBs and support arrangements for service users, this did not reflect practice that aimed to enhance choice and control for carers. The paper draws on Twigg's typology of service conceptualisations of family carers and concludes that, despite the important social rights won by carers in England, current practice continues to regard carers primarily as a resource or a co-worker, rather than a co-client. (Publisher 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.
Enabling people with support needs to set up social care enterprises
- Author:
- COMMUNITY CATALYSTS
- Publisher:
- Community Catalysts
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- Harrogate
This report describes a two and a half year project, located in Oldham, Greater Manchester, to design and test a business model to support people with care and support needs wishing to set up or sustain a social care enterprise. The aim was to enable people with care and support needs to use their assets and experiences to run social care enterprises, and to provide people who use services with more choice and the opportunity to be supported by organisations run by people who themselves use services. The co-ordinator for the project started work at the beginning of July 2009, initially refining the focus of the project and identifying other organisations doing linked or relevant work. Over the period of the project the co-ordinator worked with 19 existing, developing or potential micro-enterprises in the Oldham area, providing active support to 16 of the micro-entrepreneurs. A number of key barriers and issues facing people who need support who wish to set up a social care enterprise are discussed. To overcome these barriers there is a need to set up a different and more intensive way of working. Recommendations for a strategy to address these issues and barriers, both locally and nationally, are provided.