Support planning and brokerage

A support plan says how someone's personal budget will be used to make the changes they want to in their life, and meet their needs.

• 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...
• Barnsley peer brokerage report
  As part of a DH funded project in Barnsley a study was undertaken to develop knowledge and gather information to assist the development of peer support brokerage, centred particularly on people who fund...
• Personalisation through person-centred planning
  This good practice guidance has been published by the Department of Health. It was developed to show how person-centred planning can help to deliver social care transformation. It includes a range...
• Support planning and brokerage for older people and people with mental health difficulties
  This guide was developed with older people and people with mental health difficulties and their supporters as well as people involved in support planning. It responds to the findings of the Personal...
• Peer support and the personalisation of adult social care
  The National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) has produced a report looking at the evidence on peer support and links to personal budgets. The message from the report is that availability of peer...
• The independent broker role and training requirements - Summary report
  This report from Skills for Care explains the main findings of a project about independent support brokers. It talks about what they would need to know and what skills they would need.
• Good Practice in Support Planning and Brokerage
  This paper collates learning and best practice on support planning and brokerage.
• Commissioning for Support Planning and Brokerage: a resource tool
  This tool is designed to help councils, local people and other key stakeholders to identify what brokerage resources are available in their community, to recognise where there might be gaps and to determine...
• West Sussex support planning specification for voluntary and community organisations
  Support planning specification from West Sussex for voluntary and community organisations.
• Involving the Voluntary sector: Interview with Pat Tatters from Advocacy in Gateshead & South Tyneside (AiG&ST)
  In this interview Pat Tatters from Advocacy in Gateshead and South Tyneside talks about the work to involve the voluntary sector in the Gateshead individual budget pilot.