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Stories

In this section you can find personal stories and short films about social care transformation, showing how it has made a difference for disabled and older people and their families.

Personal budgets DVD

This section brings you real life accounts of the implementation and use of personal budgets and the impact that they have made on the lives of those who have received them.

Social care TV

This set of films presents the experiences of people using services and their carers, as well as social care staff. These stories are part of the social care online series on personalisation.

Case studies: personal experiences of transformation

This collection of case studies shows how tranformation can make a difference in people's lives.

Films about social care transformation

This series of short films explains what is changing in social care and what the difference this will make for people who need support and their families.

Hartlepool change management stories

This set of short clips from Hartlepool show how councils can go about a programme of organisational change in order to implement personal budgets.

Individual budget stories

On this page you can find stories and videos from people who were part of the Individual Budgets Pilot Programme in 2006 and 2007.