Self-Directed Support

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

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…
Paper: 04.11.08 Personalisation in Social Care This article explores how the current reforms in social care are rooted in a radically different approach to social…
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