Making self-directed support and personal budgets work for carers

This section provides examples of approaches to carers assessments, resource allocation and support planning and the outcomes for carers of these approaches.

• Making it Real for Carers
  Making it Real for Carers explores what each Making it Real theme means to carers and what this might look like in practice. It has been coproduced with carers and organisations including the Carers...
• Young carers: whole family approaches and personalisation
  ADASS December 2011 The focus of this paper is on young carers and how personalisation and whole family approaches can support them to have the opportunities that other young people enjoy. Good personalised...
• Manual for Measures of Caring Activities and Outcomes
  A number of local authorities working with young carers are using the assessment tools in the Manual for Measures of Caring Activities and Outcomes For Children and Young People23 developed by Stephen...
• The Coventry Carers' Centre: inclusive, whole-family working
  The Coventry Carers' Centre work with carers from age five upwards, and are therefore able to look holistically at the whole- family situation and help the whole family to deal with the caring situation...
• Social Care TV: Parental mental health and child welfare - a young person's story
  This film is about 18-year-old Cait who has been caring for her Mum since the age of 7. The film explores the importance of involving and assessing the needs of all family members from the outset. It...
• Surrey Supported Self Assessment and Resource Allocation System
  In Surrey the Supported Self Assessment and Resource Allocation System captures information about the support that the carer needs to continue to care on an ongoing basis. The main RAS looks at substituting...
• Surrey: developing personal budgets with carers
  Surrey County Council has developed its arrangements for personal budgets with the involvement of carers throughout. As a result, the carer's assessment has been embedded in the main Supported Self-Assessment...
• The Individual Budgets Pilot Projects - Impact and Outcomes for Carers
  Individual budgets can greatly improve carers' quality of life when compared with carers of people using conventional social services, new independent research has shown. They can allow carers more...
• At a glance 10: Personalisation briefing: Implications for carers
  This SCIE briefing examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for carers and the two main elements, primarily that personalisation should: impact on the support provided to the person...