Useful documents
The Department of Health (DoH) embraced Personalisation and set up 13 individual budget pilot sites across England. The evaluation of the pilot was published in July 2008, following a national roll-out. Click here to read the Individual Budgets Evaluation Network (IBSEN) evaluation report and DoH response.
Valuing People Now: from progress to transformation
The white paper ‘Valuing People’ (2001) sets out the Government’s vision for people with a learning disability, across a range of services based on four key principles of rights, independence, choice, and inclusion. The white paper’s vision covered a range of issues including health, housing and employment. ‘Valuing People Now’ seeks people’s views on the priorities for the learning disability agenda over the next three years.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Closedconsultations/DH_081014?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=155488&Rendition=Web
Our Health, Our Care, Our Say
This White Paper sets a new direction for the whole health and social care system. It confirms the vision set out in the Department of Health Green Paper, Independence, Well-being and Choice. There will be a radical and sustained shift in the way in which services are delivered, ensuring that they are more personalised and that they fit into people’s busy lives. We will give people a stronger voice so that they are the major drivers of service improvement.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4127453?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=456&Rendition=Web
Putting People First
Across Government, the shared ambition is to put people first through a radical reform of public services, enabling people to live their own lives as they wish, confident that services are of high quality, are safe and promote their own individual needs for independence, well-being and dignity.
This ministerial concordat establishes the collaboration between central and local government, the sector’s professional leadership, providers and the regulator. It sets out the shared aims and values which will guide the transformation of adult social care, and recognises that the sector will work across agendas with users and carers to transform people’s experience of local support and services.
Transforming Social Care
This Local Authority Circular sets out information to support the transformation of social care as signalled in the Department of Health’s social care Green Paper, ‘Independence, well-being and choice’ (2005) and reinforced in the White Paper, ‘Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services’ in 2006. It describes the vision for development of a personalised approach to the delivery of adult social care and context in which this policy is grounded. It also includes copy of the Social Care Reform Grant Determination and the details of the new ring-fenced grant to help councils to redesign and reshape their systems over the next 3 years. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Lettersandcirculars/LocalAuthorityCirculars/DH_081934?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=157911&Rendition=Web
Personalisation: An easy read guide
This guide is written by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, to help people find the care and support they need to live a better life. Click here to read in full: http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/reports/report20-easyread.pdf
