David Bartram

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INDIVIDUAL BUDGETS -BRIEF POLICY BACKGROUND
David Bartram Department of Health 22nd November
2006
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Development of the Policy

• Government Policy commitment to piloting
  individual budgets
• Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People
  (Strategy Unit, January 2005)
• Opportunity Age (Department for Work and
  Pensions, March 2005)
• Independence, Well-being and Choice (Department
  of Health, March 2005)
• Our health, our care, our say (Department of
  Health, January 2006)

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Importance of the IB Pilot as a cross Government
project

• Department of Health
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Office for Disability Issues
• Department of Communities and Local Government
• Work together in the project team.

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What do the pilots look like?

• The pilot project is testing how to bring
  together funding streamsdoes not include state
  benefits, and does not include NHS services.
• Council provided social care services
• Supporting People
• Disabled Facilities Grants
• and includes all the main groups of people who
  use support services
• Older people
• People with physical disabilities
• People with sensory impairments

• Independent Living Fund
• Integrated Community Equipment
• Services
• Access to Work

• People with learning disabilities
• People with mental health needs
• People with long term neurological conditions

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13 pilot sites

• Barnsley
• Barking and Dagenham
• Bath NE Somerset
• Coventry
• Essex
• Lincolnshire
• Leicester
• Norfolk
• Manchester
• Oldham
• West Sussex
• Kensington Chelsea
• Gateshead

The major services covered by Individual Budgets
are delivered by Local Government 13 pilot
sites were chosen to represent differences in
size, region, level of performance
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Government is looking for evidence

• A Model of Individual Budgets that can be rolled
  out nationally
• To demonstrate whether the IB approach can
  deliver higher quality support within existing
  resources
• A substantial evaluation is in place involving 3
  leading academic institutions working together.
  The aim is for one of the first randomised
  control trials in social care

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Implementation

• Pilot sites are being supported by the Care
  Services Improvement Partnership.
• The Self Directed Support Network - a White
  Paper commitment, Linking In Control, the
  Direct Payments take-up campaign and Individual
  Budgets.
• Ensuring linkage to the Care Services Efficiency
  Delivery programme

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Individual Budget pilots as a major change
process Judith Whittam will expand on that
theme..