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Individual Budgets and the Future of Adult Social Care

This article explores the impact of individual budgets on adult social care, discussing choice, risk management, and the boundaries of social care. It examines the implications of modernization and the role of professionals, service users, and informal carers in managing risk and responsible spending. The article highlights the positive potential for individuals using services and the debate over legitimate needs and spending public money.

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Individual Budgets and the Future of Adult Social Care

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  1. Individual Budgets and the future of adult social care Martin Stevens3, Caroline Glendinning1, Nicola Moran1, David Challis2, José-Luis Fernández2, Sally Jacobs2, Karen Jones2, Martin Knapp2, Jill Manthorpe3, Ann Netten2, Mark Wilberforce2 1. Social Policy Research Unit (York) 2. Personal Social Services Research Unit (Kent, LSE, Manchester) 3. Social Care Workforce Research Unit (King’s College, London)

  2. Introduction • Choice and modernisation • Risk and risk management • Boundaries of social care • Implications

  3. Choice and modernisation • Post war consensus • Community care - rise of market philosophy • Direct Payments, In Control, Individual Budgets • Choice a key concept underpinning changes • ‘User movement’ • Market ideology • Individualism

  4. Transactional or Transformational change? • Early modernisation focus on regulation and performance targets – Transactional and top down • Personalisation more transformational relying more on training, fostering of relationships and the communication of values: • Individuals as consumers levering up quality? • Individuals internalising attitudes and values (governmentality)? • Individuals taking on risks? (Newman et al 2008) • Increased risk? • Professional roles in flux • Policy tension • Safeguarding and personalisation

  5. Perceived areas of risk • Personal and financial abuse • Poor quality care services • A poor match between allocated resources and actual need Whereas, you know, if, and I suppose it’s not just me, I’ve heard it in general conversation that is people going to be more at risk perhaps if they’ve got family or friends doing their care. You know, could they be more inclined not to get the hours that they should be getting in, in personal care? (Team manager, Older people’s team)

  6. Positive risk taking But again, it’s about risk learning. You know, it’s positive risk taking. And we’re not good at that. And so that’s fear for us. (Care Coordinator, Mental Health)

  7. Risk management • Regulation • Monitoring support plans • Integrating safeguarding and personalisation policy

  8. Boundaries of adult social care • Legitimate needs met with public social care funds? ‘He is a very proud man and doesn’t want personal care. What he wants is other things, so that, when he is up and dressed and tired out, somebody will be there to do other things for him like, [keep] a house tidy. That is a legitimate way to spend their budget’(Team Manager, Physical Disabilities’ team) • What can be purchased? But for me about being confident driving around wasn’t, that wasn’t even essential because (inaudible) the care. So you wouldn’t spend it on a sat nav. But in another case it might be that the sat nav did meet that need. (Team Manager, Physical Disabilities’ team) • Role of informal carers? Do I actually do the assessment and say, well, this person is entitled to an individual budget, because they want to actually to pay the family member or do I actually put FACS into place and say, if the family member is providing the service then they are not eligible? (Care Manager, Older People)

  9. Conclusions • Twin influences on choice as a policy mechanism • Disability movement • Public service modernisation • Debate over boundaries of social care • Positive potential for people using services • Role of professional • Role of service user and informal carers • Managing risk • Responsible for spending public money

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