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Instead, when we pay attention to supporting people’s Real Wealth we see people as citizens, who can both exercise their legitimate rights and can help make their communities more welcoming and supportive places to be. This is the proper goal of personalisation.
However, too often, current practice undermines the possibility of our building on Real Wealth. Too often the system makes it dif cult for people to use personal budgets exibly so that people can get the best value from them and strengthen their Real Wealth:
• there’s limited exibility for people who take on more control
• it’s hard for new forms of support to enter or emerge within a tightly ‘managed marketplace’
• it’s burdensome and expensive for people to take on more control
• systems equate direct payments with people employing their own support staff, which makes them unattractive to people who can’t or won’t take this step. For people who do wish to be or indeed feel that they have no option but to become an employer, support is available. For example Skills for Care offer information for individual employers on how to recruit, manage and help train PAs www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Employing-your-own-care- and-support/Information-hub.aspx
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