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In this chapter you will learn about

  • What social workers think about personal budgets.
  • How different service users are responding to personal budgets.
  • How carers are reacting to personal budgets.
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    Quiz

    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.

    Question 1 of 6

    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.

    Question 2 of 6

    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?

    Question 2 of 6

    The correct answer is Option 2 - 67%

    Only 14% said no and 20% weren't sure yet.

    Question 3 of 6

    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.

    Question 4 of 6

    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.

    Question 5 of 6

    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.

    Question 6 of 6

    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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    Quiz

    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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    Quiz

    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.