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Choice and Control: Person Centred Budgets in the UK

Choice and Control: Person Centred Budgets in the UK. Jude Wells Personalisation Manager and Right to Control lead, Stockport Council Jude.wells@stockport.gov.uk 07800 618811. Right to Control-Aims of workshop. Where we are now What's going well What we have learnt

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Choice and Control: Person Centred Budgets in the UK

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  1. Choice and Control: Person Centred Budgets in the UK Jude Wells Personalisation Manager and Right to Control lead, Stockport Council Jude.wells@stockport.gov.uk 07800 618811

  2. Right to Control-Aims of workshop • Where we are now • What's going well • What we have learnt • Impact on social care and housing related support • Case Study-what does it mean for people

  3. Where we are now • Went ‘live’ 1st April in across the Manchester Partnership-Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Stockport and Trafford and 2 Department of Work and Pensions Districts. (over a million residents) • Greater Manchester Centre for Independent Living managed by Breakthrough UK a user led organisation • Developing the local ULO market in each authority to support customers across the 5 boroughs • Testing areas of joint support planning and reviews, pooled budgets and portability and multi disciplinary working with social workers and disabled employment advisors and other partners.

  4. What’s going well • Strong leadership and management commitment across the partner authorities and real commitment to change. • Cross agency working with Job Centre Plus • RtC is becoming embedded in the Personalisation Transformation programme across the organisations. • Co-production with disabled people working well across the MAP with formal partnerships in place. • Exploring creative options in key areas - Supporting People and across all user groups in Social Care. • Staff Development and training with Design Group • Starting to see evidence of creative use of budgets in some of the funding streams

  5. Challenges • Current financial climate-diminishing resources • Cultural differences across partner agencies • The shift to a more person centred approach in key areas –social workers and JCP staff • Need to increase the uptake of direct payment option • Wider promotion and engagement with existing customers. • Supporting People (Housing related support) Personal Budget to be explored and developed • Personalisation still not seen as the default option • Real choices in relation to employment options • Market responds to choice and control and demands of customers

  6. Case Study CURRENT SITUATION • Joan is an 18 years old woman in transition from Children’s services. • She attends a specialist course in a mainstream college and may continue in education after that. • She has a learning disability and has had Direct Payments from Children’s Services for several years. • These payments have supported her to attend activities and given her parents time to spend with their other daughters. • She is becoming aware that her younger sisters are allowed to do things independently that she isn’t.

  7. Case Study ASPIRATIONS • Her parents have the same aspirations for her as for her sisters. • They want to plan for her to leave home when she is about 25 years old – they want her to live in a home of her own with people of the same age. • They want her to develop friendships, to work and to be as independent as possible.

  8. Case Study SUPPORT • The family recognise that Joan will always need a degree of support to keep her safe. • The family assist Joan with the management of a Direct Payments and have found this to be a flexible way of arranging support. • Joan has now been assessed as having FACS eligible needs and an increase in Direct Payments has been agreed to offer the family some weekend breaks throughout the year.

  9. Case Study OUTCOMES • The family are already thinking of what outcomes they would like for their daughter. • After discussions with the SW, her mother completed the Routefinder with her daughter to identify what she wants from life. • Agreement was gained from ASC for Direct Payments to continue.

  10. Case Study THE FUTURE • Joan hopes to work in the future and her parents support this wish. • The family wish to see her move to live more independently. • She wants to be like other young people and it is likely in the future that she could use other Right to Control funding streams, through Supporting People and/or Work Choice.

  11. Case Study 2 Ray and Julia both have learning disabilities and their first child was born a year ago. They receive housing-related support and social care support and agree the following outcomes with housing and social care funding streams: • to maintain their tenancy • to fulfil their role as parents (adult social care outcome) • to safeguard their child’s welfare (children’s social care outcome). They choose to receive a direct payment paid to a local voluntary organisation which employs a support worker on their behalf for 20 hours a week. The support worker helps Ray and Julia with the tasks relating to maintaining a tenancy, provides them with practical advice concerning child care and has assisted them to enrol on a parenting course run at the local college, specifically for parents with learning disabilities. (Taken from ODI Good Practice guide for delivering the Right to Control)

  12. Any Questions?

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