Self-directed support and personal budgets

This section of the website has good practice guidance and practical examples showing how councils can implement self-directed support and personal budgets. Our latest resources are listed below, sub-topics can be accessed in the left-hand menu.

• 2nd National Personal Budget Survey
  Personal budgets (PBs) and Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) are a way of informing individuals who need support and their families how much money their council or the NHS will make available to them to...
• Sharing effective practice in maximising uptake of direct payments - webinars
  Following a group of workshops led by Disability Rights UK in early 2013 we ran a series of webinars 'Sharing effective practice in maximising uptake of direct payments'. The webinars took place on Thursday...
• Paths to Personalisation in Mental Health
  Joint Guide to support personalisation in mental health services The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) has published Paths to Personalisation in Mental Health. Paths to Personalisation...
• Improving personal budgets for older people
  Issues concerning personal budgets for older people and their carers have been prominent since the original Department of Health research on individual budgets in 2007. In April 2012, ADASS published...
• Personal Budgets: Taking Stock, Moving Forward
  Personal Budgets: Taking Stock, Moving Forward provides an overview of the latest evidence in how the sector is progressing with the delivery of personal budgets. There has been some important progress...
• Leaner approaches to council operating systems
  Think Local, Act Personal has developed new advice and thinking around how to reduce bureaucracy by developing three linked papers: Adult Social Care Minimum Process Framework Improving Direct Payment...