What is Personalisation and Personal Budgets?
The Government is introducing the Personalisation Agenda which is set to transform social care services. Personalisation allows service users and carers to decide how their social care money will be spent by allocating them a Personal Budget.
How will it affect me?
Personal Budgets can allow you more choice and flexibility about the care services you receive. You may choose to spend part of your Personal Budget on leisure activities, or to employ a personal assistant.
How can I influence what happens in Solihull?
Enable-Solihull is working with service users and carers to help shape the introduction of Personalisation in Solihull.
Please contact Enable-Solihull about how you could become involved.
Personalisation and Personal Budgets - further information
The In-Control website includes a range of factsheets which are aimed at people who will use Personal Budgets:
click on this link to go to www.in-control.org.uk
Personalisation Factsheets for suppliers
of care and support services:
Factsheet 1: Personal Budgets Process
Click here to download
Factsheet 1 in pdf format.
Factsheet 2: Funding and Contracting
Click here to download
Factsheet 2 in pdf format.
Factsheet 3: Safeguarding and Support for Personal Budgets Users
Click here to download
Factsheet 3 in pdf format.
Results of National Personal Budgets Survey Released
2,000 Personal budget holders and carers took part in the biggest national Personal Budget survey to date, giving us the clearest picture of how personal budgets are working and where the system can be improved. To find out more and download the report, visit:
http://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/News/
PersonalisationNewsItem/?cid=8992
Councils meet 30% target for Personal Budgets
A third of all people eligible for social care support are now receiving a personal budget, with half of those received by people over the age of 65, an ADASS survey of 153 English councils has found. For more information, visit:
http://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/News/
PersonalisationNewsItem/?cid=8981
Third Interim Evaluation Report on Personal Health Budgets Published
The third independent interim evaluation report on the personal health budgets pilot programme has been published by PHBE (Personal Health Budgets Evaluation) team on 15 July 2011.
The report can be downloaded from the PHBE website or via the link below, where you can also read more about the report: http://www.personalhealthbudgets.dh.gov.uk/News/
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Commissioning for Personalised Outcomes
Please click here to download a document from the Department of Health, which focuses on commissioning/contracting care services that deliver personalised outcomes.
The employment rights of personal assistants
An impending surge in the number of personal assistants is set to highlight a range of employment issues. Skills for Care's recent report on the adult social care workforce suggests that the drive to ensure service users hold their own personal budgets means there will be a five-fold increase in the number of personal assistants in England by 2025, from 168,000 in 2010 to 722,000. However a range of employment issues could arise.
Skills for Care, together with Association for Real Change (ARC), has developed a toolkit to support people to employ their own personal assistants. The toolkit helps small employers deal with the basic issues and legalities of employing their own staff.
To view the toolkit visit:
www.skillsforcare.org.uk/recruitment
Skills for Care commissioned a project that focused on personalisation and partnership. The goal of this research was to establish what contributes to a successful and an effective working relationship between the disabled employer (funded via Direct Payment and/or Independent Living Fund) and the employed personal assistant.
To view the report click on the link below:
personal assistants - effective relationships
Personalisation and Learning Disabilities:
New Handbook published
A new handbook, edited by Andrew Tyson, policy lead at In Control, has been published.
http://www.in-control.org.uk/news/in-control-news/personalisation-and-learning-disabilities-new-handbook-published.aspx
SCIE Report 37: Personalisation, productivity and efficiency
A new handbook, edited by Andrew Tyson, policy lead at In Control, has been published.This report examines the potential for personalisation, particularly the mechanism of self-directed support and personal budgets, to result in cost efficiencies and improved productivity as well as improved care and support, resulting in better outcomes for people's lives.
It provides an overview of some emerging evidence on efficiency from the implementation of personalisation so far
Download the report here.