...Fraser Mitchell Purpose This paper aims to describe the implementation of self‐directed support (SDS) in transitions for disabled children and young people moving from children's to adult services; it also seeks to describe the use of realistic evaluation as an approach to evaluation...

...Fraser Mitchell Purpose This paper aims to summarise the literature on self‐directed support (SDS) in transitions for disabled children and young people moving from children's to adult services. Design/methodology/approach The literature on SDS and transitions is reviewed. This paper...

... authority regions in Yorkshire and the Humber. The implications of the model go far wider to further reforms in adult social care, health care, education, children and families, and community development. KEY WORDS personal budgets; self-directed support; disabled school leavers; transition...

... people receiving individual budgets and a target that all adults receiving social care will be offered self‐directed support by April 2010. Feature Personalising Health The West Sussex Story Sara Weech Director of Operations Joint Commissioning, West Sussex County Council and West Sussex PCT Contact...

..., to reflect the need for joining together health and social care so that a person does not lose control when their health deteriorates and different funding streams and services come into play. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Personalisation Self‐Directed Support In Control Personal...

...; PERSONALISATION; IN-CONTROL; SELF-DIRECTED SUPPORT Contact details: melanie@henwood-associates.co.uk; bob@bobhudsonconsulting.com Introduction A litmus test to measure the successful integration of health, care and related services is surely how well they are able to respond to people with complex and multiple...

... draws on findings from an in‐depth study on self‐directed support commissioned by the Department of Health. It highlights some of the challenges and opportunities which arise for authorities attempting to engage with personalisation and to develop more integrated responses to people's support needs...

... agenda for public services. It is timely, therefore, to reflect not only on the strengths but also on the potential pitfalls of a major stream, self‐directed support, for the personalisation agenda in adult social care. Anticipating and guarding against unintended consequences of policy are as important...

...Simon Duffy Care management is a central part of the current health and social care system, but the development of Self‐Directed Support raises significant questions about the future of this function. Moreover, if the current design of the care management function is to change, then this will raise...

...Melanie Henwood; Bob Hudson At a time when there is much debate about the nature of self‐directed support and the development of individual budgets, the role of the Independent Living Funds comes into question. This article reports on the findings of an independent review of the ILF undertaken...

...Simon Duffy There has been growing international interest in the idea that social care would be better organised as a system of self‐directed support, where people control their own budgets for their own support. While there is significant evidence that this approach brings benefits to disabled...

... under way. Individual Budgets Evaluation Social Care Personalised Care Self‐Directed Support knowledge base Individual Budgets: On the Launch Pad Martin Stevens SOCIAL CARE WORKFORCE RESEARCH UNIT, KING S COLLEGE LONDON ABSTRACT This article presents plans to evaluate the individual budget...

...Helen Sanderson; Simon Duffy; Carl Poll; Chris Hatton In Control is a system of self‐directed support. This paper tells the story of its first two years and of the pilot implementation projects run in six local authorities. The key findings from the evaluation are that people are more self...

... on the organisation of social care but, as I will go on to explain, only if it is interpreted in the context of the broader concept of self-directed support. Like all important innovations, the implementation process is fraught with difficulties. This article will explore three of the most significant challenges...