This report sets out evaluation work from across In Control’s children’s service members, and includes more detailed input from one particular area, Newham. It includes the views of family members and young people. Newham Children’s Services started out on a programme of piloting individual budgets for disabled children in January 2008 as part of their Aiming High for Disabled Children programme. They invited 45 families to take part; currently 17 families from that initial group are now managing their son’s or daughter’s individual budget. The report highlights the positive impact across a range of outcomes for disabled children and includes more detailed discussion with families and professionals. Key finds show that: individual budgets have made a significant difference to family life; families feel safer and more confident about the support being given to their child; and many families report, often backed up with similar comments from schools, improvements in their child’s health.
This report sets out evaluation work from across In Control’s children’s service members, and includes more detailed input from one particular area, Newham. It includes the views of family members and young people. Newham Children’s Services started out on a programme of piloting individual budgets for disabled children in January 2008 as part of their Aiming High for Disabled Children programme. They invited 45 families to take part; currently 17 families from that initial group are now managing their son’s or daughter’s individual budget. The report highlights the positive impact across a range of outcomes for disabled children and includes more detailed discussion with families and professionals. Key finds show that: individual budgets have made a significant difference to family life; families feel safer and more confident about the support being given to their child; and many families report, often backed up with similar comments from schools, improvements in their child’s health.
Subject terms:
outcomes, personal budgets, personalisation, user views, childrens social care, evaluation;
In this, the first of three briefings, In Control describes its work and vision around personalisation in the children’s world. Rather than attempt to offer answers, the paper provides some building blocks which, it suggests, can create a transformed relationship between the child and their family and the state; from the “gift” model to individually managed funds. Central to the briefing
In this, the first of three briefings, In Control describes its work and vision around personalisation in the children’s world. Rather than attempt to offer answers, the paper provides some building blocks which, it suggests, can create a transformed relationship between the child and their family and the state; from the “gift” model to individually managed funds. Central to the briefing is the belief that Individual Budgets and Self-Directed Support work well for children and young people across all ages. Personalised funding and support make best sense of a child-centred approach to meeting additional support needs. Individual Budgets for children are said to complete a whole-life approach to support, that will enable them to move into adulthood in a way very different to that experienced by young people in the recent past. Families’ skills will be valued and used; young people will be supported by voluntary sector organisations based in the community; there will be a single support plan setting out how outcomes will be achieved and available resources will be used. Disabled children and young people will participate more in the life of the local community. A focus on the efficient use of available money will make best use of a child and family’s ‘real wealth’; not just their income but their connections, capacities, access, assets and resilience.
Subject terms:
personal budgets, personalisation, person-centred care, self-directed support, young people, children, government policy;
This paper sets out In Control’s perspective on integration. Integration is seen as a solution to limited and decreasing budgets, inefficient and duplicating systems and as a way of becoming more focused on people. If it is to succeed then integration must start from the person, not from organisational arrangement. Any change to how people are supported must be centred on improving the actual, lived experience of those people. People’s life experience, belief, faith, culture, and history shape their identity, that is how they live and what is most important and cherished to each of them. Wealth and poverty are not simple monetary measures but about all the resources people have or do not have. Communities can be rich sources of support, interaction and opportunity; public services can have an important role in facilitating and increasing the richness and wealth within local communities.
(Edited publisher abstract)
This paper sets out In Control’s perspective on integration. Integration is seen as a solution to limited and decreasing budgets, inefficient and duplicating systems and as a way of becoming more focused on people. If it is to succeed then integration must start from the person, not from organisational arrangement. Any change to how people are supported must be centred on improving the actual, lived experience of those people. People’s life experience, belief, faith, culture, and history shape their identity, that is how they live and what is most important and cherished to each of them. Wealth and poverty are not simple monetary measures but about all the resources people have or do not have. Communities can be rich sources of support, interaction and opportunity; public services can have an important role in facilitating and increasing the richness and wealth within local communities.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
integrated services, personalisation, person-centred care, health care, social care, resilience, participation, cultural identity, communities;
In June 2010, In Control hosted a roundtable discussion exploring personalisation, including self-directed support and individual budgets, for children, young people and families. Twenty-six people took part. They came from across the country and from a wide spectrum of interested parties, including; family/parent representatives, the Chair of the Carers Commission, a Director of Children’s and Adult Services and people from consultancy and development organisations involved in taking forward personalisation work with children. This report documents the voices of these people with experience of personalisation. Three questions were addressed: the concept of individual budgets as an entitlement, how to ensure that children and families stay in control and how to take the forward the personalisation agenda. Following the event, a meeting was held with a group of young people; their views and hopes for the future are shared here. There was overwhelming agreement that personalisation for children and young people has the potential to be cheaper, safer and better than existing approaches to supporting children and young people with additional needs. However there was concern that some of the mixed messages and myths surrounding the whole agenda could put personalisation work with children and young people at risk if it was not highlighted as an example of innovation, improvement and investment in efficiency.
In June 2010, In Control hosted a roundtable discussion exploring personalisation, including self-directed support and individual budgets, for children, young people and families. Twenty-six people took part. They came from across the country and from a wide spectrum of interested parties, including; family/parent representatives, the Chair of the Carers Commission, a Director of Children’s and Adult Services and people from consultancy and development organisations involved in taking forward personalisation work with children. This report documents the voices of these people with experience of personalisation. Three questions were addressed: the concept of individual budgets as an entitlement, how to ensure that children and families stay in control and how to take the forward the personalisation agenda. Following the event, a meeting was held with a group of young people; their views and hopes for the future are shared here. There was overwhelming agreement that personalisation for children and young people has the potential to be cheaper, safer and better than existing approaches to supporting children and young people with additional needs. However there was concern that some of the mixed messages and myths surrounding the whole agenda could put personalisation work with children and young people at risk if it was not highlighted as an example of innovation, improvement and investment in efficiency.
Subject terms:
personal budgets, personalisation, person-centred planning, self-directed support, social care provision, user views, young people, children, disabilities;
A discussion paper setting out the emerging policy context for children’s services. The paper argues personalisation can only be achieved by a fundamental transformation in the power relationships between services and families. It explores four of the essential elements of Self-Directed Support: Safeguarding, Resource allocation, Planning together, Outcomes focus.
A discussion paper setting out the emerging policy context for children’s services. The paper argues personalisation can only be achieved by a fundamental transformation in the power relationships between services and families. It explores four of the essential elements of Self-Directed Support: Safeguarding, Resource allocation, Planning together, Outcomes focus.
Subject terms:
outcomes, personalisation, planning, resource allocation, self care, self-directed support, young people, children;