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Individual Budgets Programme Steve
Strong Individual Budgets Implementation Team
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The basic mandate for the Pilots

• The government said it would pilot individual
  budgets in
• Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People
• Opportunity Age
• Independence, Well-being and Choice

If the pilots show the anticipated benefits, we
will begin rolling out individual budgets
nationally within the lifetime of the next
Parliament (Opportunity Age)
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Choice and control
move from a system where people have to take
what is offered to one where people have greater
control over identifying the type of support or
help they want and more choice about and
influence over the services on offer. Independenc
e Well-being and choice
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Why? Because people want different things than
we are giving them at the moment
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Through having control over the money
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About the pilot programme
13 Local Authorities Will run for between 18
months and 2 years Will be fully evaluated Will
be supported by a team from CSIP (Care Services
Improvement Partnership) Draws heavily on
learning from In Control, and from barriers to
Direct Payment take-up
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Which councils were chosen?
West Sussex County Council Lincolnshire County
Council Leicester City Council Essex County
Council Norfolk County Council Barnsley
Metropolitan Borough Council Coventry City
Council Bath and North East Somerset Council
Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council London
Borough of Barking and Dagenham Gateshead
Council Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
Manchester City Council
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How can we make it work for people?

• A quick assessment that takes account of your
  needs, and streamlines the processes between
  different funding streams so you dont need to
  be asked the same thing multiple times and so
• You get told early on and up front how much money
  is available for your support from a range of
  income streams
• Social Care Money
• Independent Living Fund
• Supporting People
• Disabled Facilities Grant
• Access to Work

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• You will then be in a good position to
• Plan realistically and flexibly the best way to
  meet your needs, with help from support planners,
  brokers, information agencies, your family and
  friends to suit you so that you can
• Be creative and flexible about how to meet your
  needs making best use of resources which
  include the money available to you, the family
  and community resources around you that you can
  build on. This will unlock a whole range of
  possibilities to you that the current system
  cannot offer. And then
• Monitoring and accountability arrangements that
  are proportionate

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Some quotes from the first Individual Budget
recipients
The most important thing for me is keeping out
of hospital. I wanted to put air conditioning in
one room downstairs, Ive got it now and its
great. I wouldnt have happened if I hadnt
thought about whats possible through Individual
Budgets. I am now making my house accessible so I
can get in and out and this means I can also have
my disabled friends to visit. Lifes going to
change for the better for my husband too now.
Personally I have had a great mistrust of social
services, my goal is to be as independent as
possible. I found the whole experience fulfilling
the people I thought were in control were
suddenly with me. There was less of a feeling of
them and us, this time it was like we are in it
together.
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www.individualbudgets.csip.org.uk www.in-control.o
rg.uk
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Individual Budgets and Capacity Building for the
VCS

• Carol Bailey
• Head of Capacity Building and Project Management
• Housing Strategy Support Directorate
• Communities Local Government

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Supporting People Programme

• CLG recently published a Supporting People
  Strategy
• In the strategy we said -
• Across Government we want people to have
  services which are appropriate and responsive to
  their individual needs and expectations
• One of the ways that we will look to deliver on
  this is by using the learning from the Individual
  Budget pilots and other choice led personal
  funding mechanisms

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Supporting People - Issues

• Supporting people have recently appointed a
  consultant work with the IB pilot sites to
  identify good practice and to disseminate
  information.
• The individual budget pilots are currently only
  looking at a small number of the client groups
  that SP supports.

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SP funding in IBs

• Agreed levels of SP funding in IBs vary from site
  to
• site
• CLG ministers allow some flexibility for pilot
  sites to include up to 10 of their Supporting
  People budget within IBs.
• However, Ministers have recently approved
  Oldham's business case to include up to 40 of
  their Supporting People budget in the IB pilot.

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Individual Budgets case study 1
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Individual Budgets- Case study 2

• Case Study 2
• There was a couple who has been married for 60
  years. The wife was diagnosed with dementia.
  Husband refused to allow the wife to go into care
  as he wanted to look after her himself.
• The Authority worked with the husband to identify
  friends and neighbours that could provide breaks
  and support. He used his Individual Budget to
  pay for them.
• As a result his wife was able to remain at home
  with her husband for a further 4 months.
  Eventually the struggle became too much for the
  husband and he agreed that his wife could go into
  care and he decided to go with her. Although
  they only need the IB for 4 months the husband
  did make the point of saying how much it had
  meant to him to be able to have his wife with him
  for that time.

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Contacting Communities and Local Government

• Queries? Best practice to share?
• supporting.people
• _at_communities.gsi.gov.uk
• 020 7944 2556
• www.spkweb.org.uk