Self-Directed Support

People who need support are entitled to be in control of their own lives and any support they need.

Slide: 23.04.13 Decoding Personalisation The real value of personalisation is being lost in empty rhetoric and conceptual confusion. Local government needs to…
Slide: 08.04.13 Travelling Hopefully - lessons for NDIS This talk was given to some of those leading the design of Australia's NDIS and setting out international and English…
Paper: 24.02.13 Designing NDIS An international perspective on the design of systems of individualised funding for people with disabilities.
Paper: 20.02.13 The Road to NDIS This paper by Robbi Williams and Simon Duffy explores the English experience as a valuable source of information for…
Story: 22.01.13 Michelle and NDIS Dell Stagg describes how she rescued her daughter from an institutional service and the need to respect families in the…
Project: 04.01.13 SDS and the NDIS Implementing self-directed support and the meaning of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Article: 26.10.12 Fears for NDIS A summary of concerns about the design of Australia's important National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Film: 22.10.12 Organising for Self-Directed Support This film by John O'Brien explains the developing thinking in Wisconsin about how to create the right support systems…
Story: 24.09.12 When SDS Doesn't Work An anonymous account of the real-life failure of self-directed support for a family who needed help.
Slide: 12.08.12 Self-Directed Support in Aberdeen A presentation given to senior managers in Aberdeen on the nature of self-directed support and the challenges of…
Slide: 10.08.12 Self-Directed Support in Northern Ireland A presentation given at the launch event for the development of self-directed support in Northern Ireland.
Graphic: 16.06.12 Help and Connect Help and Connect is a powerful innovation, developed by Skills for People, to bring together their different forms of…
Graphic: 06.06.12 Community Brokerage Community Brokerage means helping people help themselves and make full use of all the community has to offer.
Inspiration: 14.05.12 Principles of Self-Directed Support These seven principles provide the ethical context for the implementation of Self-Directed Support as a system for…
Slide: 20.04.12 Personalisation and Local Government Talk given to local authority Chief executives on the way in which local government could re-imagine its own role - with…
Slide: 17.01.12 Personalisation & Social Work A presentation given for Social Work students at the University of Huddersfield.
Project: 04.01.12 Fellows Day 2012 A day of learning, thinking and lively discussion.
Project: 04.01.12 Architecture for Personalisation Working in partnership with people, families and community organisations.
Article: 24.11.11 Implementing Self-Directed Support This short essay offers some thoughts about the lessons other countries might want to draw from the English experience…
Article: 10.05.11 Do's and Don'ts for a New Script This paper is a working document to help authorities 'rescript' their social work role - to make it more positive,…
Graphic: 20.03.11 New Script for Social Work Personalisation and the best use of social work skills demands a new script to replace the broken system of care…
Paper: 24.01.11 Evaluation of SDS Pilot in Stockport The University of Chester's evaluation of self-directed support for people with mental health problems in…
Slide: 24.01.11 New Script for Social Work Presentation to social workers in North East Lincolnshire on how to return the social work role to one that is more about…
Story: 11.01.11 Adam and his Family are in Control Adam has returned from an out of area placement to take up life as an active citizen.
Paper: 04.01.11 Active Patient Vidhya Alakeson's Policy Paper sets out the case for extending the principles of self-direction, and in particular…
Project: 04.01.11 Personalised Transition How transition should work for families and young people with disabilities.
Paper: 30.10.10 Critical Path Framework Don Derrett developed this to help local authorities plan all the necessary system changes as they move towards…
Graphic: 17.09.10 Self-Directed Support The 7 step process in self-directed support.
Inspiration: 01.06.10 Model Development Model Development is one of the keys to innovation and improvement in the welfare state is the development of models…
Inspiration: 01.05.10 Personal Planning It is sometimes useful to have a plan and sometimes local bodies may seek to confirm the competence of people with…
Paper: 09.04.10 Citizenship Theory A paper which explores the theoretical foundations of personalisation.
Paper: 06.11.09 Should We Ban Brokerage? Local authorities need to make much better use of all the varied resources that communities already have to offer when…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Conditional Resource Entitlement This is a way of understanding individual budgets, vouchers and other mechanism as part of a way of providing support…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Professional Gift Model The Professional Gift Model remains the prevalent model for public services, whereby support is defined by…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Personalisation System Personalisation can be developed as system-wide innovation. However it requires changes at every point: lead…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Portable Education Budget There seems to be no good reason why families should not control the funding for their child's education - especially if…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Tapered Control Individual budgets can be managed by at least 6 different mechanisms, allowing people to take different levels of…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Personalised Pathway The Personalised Pathway is a model for services and support for children and families - it puts families in the driving…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Smart Commissioning Commissioning does not need to just focus on the organisation of services for communities - smart commissioning…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Integration through Personalisation In public policy integration has often meant the brining together of services of funding that has been separated at the…
Graphic: 01.08.09 System Transformation The process of shifting local systems over to a more personalised approach is complex and multi-layered.
Graphic: 01.08.09 Funding Models in Health There are many different systems by which funding can be organised in order to fund different kinds of health and social…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Resource Allocation System A Resource Allocation System (RAS) is any set of public rules which determines an entitlement.
Graphic: 01.08.09 Individual Budget An individual budget is one approach to enabling people to take more control of their own support - by giving people…
Inspiration: 01.07.09 7 Steps of Self-Directed Support Self-directed support is the 7 step process by which people obtain control over their support in order to achieve a…
Inspiration: 01.06.09 Smart Commissioning In the past commissioners were told by central government that their job was to purchase services on behalf of…
Inspiration: 01.05.09 Tapered Control People need Tapered Control, different levels of control, depending upon their needs and circumstances.
Inspiration: 01.04.09 Total Transformation The process of transformation is complex and multi-layered, however it is possible to identify an underlying logic…
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