General Information

On this page you'll find general information, links to documents and organisations.

For more specific information click on the menu on the left hand side of this page or click the links below:

• Support with Mobility
• Support with Benefits, Finance and Budgeting
• Support with Household Tasks and Cooking
• Support with Personal Care, Hygiene and Grooming
• Support with Leisure and Social Activities
• Support with Work and Employment
• Support with Health and Wellbeing

Department of Health

• Click here for information on the Personalisation toolkit

• Individual Budgets, Micro Commissioning and Extra Care Housing, this document looks at the potential damage to extra care housing from the implementation of individual budgets for all. Click here to download
  

• Making personal budgets work for older people: developing experience was published at the end of October 2008 and looks at how the individual budgets pilot schemes worked in the context of experience from older people.
  Click here for more information
  

• The Commission for Rural Communities have produced a report: Personalisation of Adult Social Care in Rural Areas. Click here for more information and to download the report.
  

• Making Individual Budgets work for Older People published at the end of October. This document looks at the findings from the Individual Budget Pilot Evaluation in the use for older people. Click here to download the document.
  

• Moving Forward: Using the Learning from the Individual Budget Pilots. This document is a response to the evaluation of the IB pilot programme from the Department of Health. Click here to download
  

EQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

• 'Ours to Own - Understanding Human Rights' A guide which looks at what human rights mean in the context of everyday life and how they have affected real people.
• To download or order a copy click here

INDEPENDENT LIVING ALTERNATIVES (ILA)

• Booklet Information for Personal Assistants. Cick here to download form ILA website.
  

LEARNING DISABILITY PRACTICE

• is now available in digital format, it is fully searchable and interactive and allows subscribers access to research articles and web-only content. 5% discount off the printed edition for information and to subscribe click here.
  

• The November issue featured an interesting article ‘Concerns over new individual budgets’ which looks at the report; Evaluation of the Individual Budget Pilot Projects and leading organisations fears.

SCIE

• A Rough Guide to Personalisation - has just been published at the end of October 2008. Click here to download the document.
  

SKILLS FOR CARE

• Skills for Care North West and Manchester City Council have two very useful toolkits for starting up as a Direct Payment customer or a P.A. Getting Started – A Guide for Direct Payment Customers and Getting Started – A Guide for Personal Assistants. More information on these guides can be found by visiting the Skills for Care North West website. Or click below to download.
  
  
• Getting Started – A Guide for Personal Assistants
  
  
• Getting Started – A Guide for Direct Payment Customers
  
  

TEACHERNET

• HM Government 'Information Sharing: Guidance for Practitioners and Managers' Guidance for those who provide services to children, young people and adults, who have to make decisions about sharing personal information on a case-by-case basis.
• To download or order a copy click here

THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

• A guide to receiving direct payments from your local council. A route to independent living, the latest version March 2008. Click here to download
  

• Putting People First. Click here to download
  

• Health Secretary Alan Johnson’s speech at the launch of Putting People First available to download by clicking here.
  

• The Social Care Reform green paper is expected this Autumn. Click here for more information
  

• An easy guide to direct payments from the Department of Health can be downloaded from the publications section of their website www.dh.gov.uk/publications

• Has published a report evaluating the Individual Budgets pilot scheme. Click here to read the report from the DH website
  

THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE

• A Guide to the Human Rights Act A booklet for People with Learning Disabilities published by the Ministry of Justice and with illustrations from CHANGE can be downloaded by clicking here.
  

THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM

• Steve Dowson, the Director of Development at the National Development Team published a paper on Independent Support Brokers, a new role created from the implementation of the Personalisation Agenda.
  Click here to download Independent Support Brokers: The why, what and how.
  

THE OFFICE FOR DISABILITY ISSUES

• In June 2006 the Independent Living Review was set up to develop a five-year strategy for Independent Living – this was to give disabled people greater choice and control and more access to communities, health, education and so forth. Various documents are available to download from the ODI website including the ILS Strategy, Consultation Information and Responses. Click here to visit their website.
  

THE SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH UNIT, THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK

• The University of York’s Social Policy Research Unit was involved in the evaluation on the Individual Budget Pilot programme. Click here to visit their findings page where you can download findings, summary and the final report.
  

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