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Personalisation & Employment

Personalisation & Employment. IPPR Seminar on Personalising Welfare . Dr Simon Duffy Centre for Welfare Reform 21st October 2009 www.centreforwelfarereform.org. Key Issues. Context Direct Payments Personal Budgets Resource Allocation Systems Conditionality Self-Directed Support

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Personalisation & Employment

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  1. Personalisation & Employment • IPPR Seminar on Personalising Welfare Dr Simon Duffy Centre for Welfare Reform 21st October 2009 www.centreforwelfarereform.org

  2. Key Issues • Context • Direct Payments • Personal Budgets • Resource Allocation Systems • Conditionality • Self-Directed Support • Community-based Support • Efficiency • Rationale • Welfare Reform

  3. A history of institutional care and powerlessness Growth of Independent Living movement (1960s) Slow policy shifts 1996 Direct Payments Act Context in Social Care

  4. Offers input efficiencies - not process/outcome efficiencies DPs and IPs - chosen by c. 50% Does not explain greater efficiencies of Personal Budgets Direct Payments

  5. Personal Budgets

  6. Resource Allocation Systems are rules-based systems for allocating funds Radically simplify criteria and enable funding integration Indicative quality of budget allows for fine-tuning Resource Allocation Systems

  7. Conditionality offers a way of increasing engagement of citizens Outcome vs Process conditionality Change of management vs penalty Conditionality

  8. Self-Directed Support

  9. Independent brokerage is the least effective and efficient form of support. Other forms of support have differential impact on different groups - but support from family & friends always correlates with greater improvements in outcomes Sophistication of this message is not getting through - risk of explosion in wasteful support Community-based support

  10. Focusing paid support where it’s really valued Purchasing non-standard services Integrating paid and unpaid support - tackling disincentives Increased community activity More careful spending Efficiency in Pull Economics

  11. Underpinning rationale

  12. Welfare Reform

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