This document discusses personal budgets for social care in the UK. It explains that personal budgets give individuals more choice and control over their social care by allowing them to manage a designated budget. The document outlines the process for obtaining a personal budget, which involves an eligibility assessment and being allocated a budget amount. It then discusses how individuals can use personal budgets to develop support plans and have flexibility in choosing services that meet their needs and goals.

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2. • Putting People First (2007)
“The time has now come to
build on best practice and
replace paternalistic, reactive
care of variable quality with a
mainstream system focussed on
prevention, early intervention,
enablement, and high quality
personally tailored services.”
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4. What does it all mean in practice?
• The whole point is that people have more
choice and control
YOU’RE the best person to decide what’s right for you. A
personal budget gives you more choice and control over
the kind of social care support you use – and how it is
delivered.
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5. OK, so how does a person get a
personal budget?
• Referral to adult social care for an assessment
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• FACS eligibility
• Self directed assessment
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• Care Outcomes identified
• Resource Allocation System
• Person notified of their indicative budget
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7. What next?
• Support planning
 What do you want to change or achieve in your life, and
how will you do this?
 How will you arrange and manage your social care
support?
 How do you want to manage your budget?
 Contingency planning – what if something goes wrong?
 How will you manage any risks?
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8. How is this different?
• Creative planning
• Brokerage support
• Managing the money
• Enabling a person to take risks
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9. What if there’s not enough money?
• Indicative budget
• Revisited when support plan complete
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10. Options for managing the money
• “Personal budgets are designed to be flexible
and fit people’s individual circumstances”
• Direct payment to an individual
• Direct payment to a suitable person
• Direct payment to a trust
• ISF – Individual Service Fund
• Local authority
• Mix ‘n’ Match
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• Review process
• Meet agreed outcomes
• Unforeseen costs
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12. Where does my idea fit in?
• Opportunities in personalisation
• Personal assistants
• Support planning and brokerage
• Paid for services and being more enterprising
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13. Where do I go for more info?
• Bradford Voluntary and Community Sector Personalisation Project
www.bradfordvcspp.org.uk and www.bradfordassembly.org.uk
• Bradford Metropolitan District Council
www.bradford.gov.uk
• Bradford KickStart
www.bradfordkickstart.com
• bfunded
www.bfunded.org.uk
• Business Link Yorkshire
www.businesslinkyorkshire.co.uk
• Bradford Assembly
www.bradfordassembly.org.uk
• Social Business Brokers
www.socialbusinessbrokers.co.uk
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