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In this chapter you will learn about
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The following quiz is designed to help you think about putting personalisation in to practice and to improve your knowledge about personal budgets.
Please note you will need to answer all 6 questions to be able to continue through to pages following the quiz or you can go directly to those pages by clicking on the Next button at the bottom of the screen.
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What is a personal budget?
- It's just another name for a direct payment where people are given cash so they can buy their own services
- It's money that a social worker is in charge of spending on someone's behalf.
- It's a budget that's made up of social services money and eligible people can have a choice about how they manage it - including a direct cash payment.
- It's something only available for disabled people and people with learning disabilities.
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Option 3 is correct
Personal budgets use social care money and are designed so that people know what resources they have overall. Personal budgets can be a direct cash payment but people can also choose to manage them in different ways. Everyone who's assessed as needing social care support should be offered the personal budget option. Assessment is part of the self-directed support process.
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Early on social workers and managers were asked if they thought personal budgets would be of long-term benefit to people in their area. How many said yes?
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The correct answer is Option 2 - 67%
Only 14% said no and 20% weren't sure yet.
Question 3 of 6
When a group of people with mental health problems were given the chance to have personal budgets what happened?
- Option 1: The majority said having a personal budget option felt good for their psychological wellbeing.
- Option 2: Most of them couldn't cope with the responsibility and wanted the social worker to do everything.
- Option 3: Some of them thought it was OK but overall it didn't really make any difference to their quality of life.
- Option 4: Nearly all of them just wanted traditional services and medication as it felt safer.
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The correct answer is Option 1
Many reported that after getting an personal budget option they had a better sense of psychological wellbeing. They also said they felt their quality of life had improved.
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Some older people have been less keen on personal budgets. What could help them?
- Option 1: A lot of older people are better off in a care home because they're too vulnerable to live independently so personal budgets shouldn't count for them.
- Option 2: Give them all the information about personal budgets and spend time with them and their carers working out what's best for them.
- Option 3: It's best not to give them the option to have a personal budget as it'll only worry them and they won't be able to cope.
- Option 4: Let them have the direct payment cash option and trust that they'll be able to make the choices for themselves.
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The correct answer is Option 2
Like everyone, older people need all the information about personal budgets but they may also need a bit more time and support to get the most from personal budgets. When they do the option can work very well for them.
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How do you think carers have responded to personal budgets?
- Option 1: Most carers say they don't want all the extra responsibility so they think personal budgets are a bad idea.
- Option 2: Some carers have said they'll probably take some of the money to spend on themselves before giving the rest to the person they're supporting.
- Option 3: Any carers are saying they're totally happy with the way traditional services are working and see no reason to change.
- Option 4: Most carers have been happier with the support purchased directly and have valued the additional control that personal budgets bring.
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The correct answer is Option 4
If carers are involved in the assessment process and have the right information and advice they can find personal budgets to be a positive option. Most are saying that the care and support purchased directly was better at meeting needs than that supplied through traditional services.
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What can you spend your personal budget on?
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The correct answer is Option 4
All 3! Provided they are legal and negotiated as part of someone's care and support plan and linked to agreed outcomes.
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Hopefully this quiz has helped you understand a bit more about personal budgets and perhaps busted a few myths that are around.
Personal budgets are not just about giving people cash and letting them go off and purchase their own services alone. Different people will want to access the option in different ways to help them feel in control.
You can't generally make a decision about who could benefit until you've got to know their individual needs, aspirations and circumstances. This is an important part of assessment and support. For example, some people think that people with mental health problems won't be able to cope with individual budgets, when it seems that many can really benefit from the control they bring. The same goes for carers.
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This is a video interview, an extract from the SCTV programme 'Personalisation for someone with a learning disability' showing Hannah and her family: choosing what to spend a personal budget on.
Transcript
Personal budget's meant that I can help mum out, do, running her business and looking after Hannah. It's a business we've always wanted to do, and me and mum work a lot with the dogs and the kennels and the cats. Being here and being able to look after Hannah in our own home means a lot to everyone. Chrissi coming home and helping has been a Godsend really. Are you off? Yes, that's you in the mirror. Who is it, Han? (laughing) To be able to choose what Hannah would like to do in her personal budget was quite difficult, because Hannah's got no speech. We got a written account from everyone, which was quite a moving experience in itself, to get something written by each member of the family and people that were close to Hannah as to what she would want from this personal budget.