Individual Budgets

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Individual Budgets
Simon Stockton IB Project Manager
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About the pilots

• Drivers for Individual Budgets come from
• Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People
• Opportunity Age
• Independence, Well-being and Choice
• The pilot project is a joint programme between
  the Department of Health, the Department for Work
  and Pensions (Office for Disability Issues) and
  the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

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Thirteen Pilot Sites

• Barnsley
• Barking and Dagenham
• Bath NE Somerset
• Coventry
• Essex
• Gateshead

• Lincolnshire
• Leicester
• Norfolk
• Manchester
• Oldham
• West Sussex
• Kensington Chelsea

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RBKC IB Pilot includes

• Adults with physical or sensory impairments up to
  65
• Adults with learning difficulties up to 65
• Older People

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Key attributes of an IB Scheme

• Transparent resource allocation system to
  deliver within resource envelope
• Streamlined assessment across agencies
• Integration or alignment of resource streams
• Options for resource deployment
• Developed support planning and brokerage
• Proportionate light touch monitoring

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Key Principles (In Control)

• Right to Independent Living
• Right to an Individual Budget
• Right to Self Determination
• Right to Accessibility
• Right to Flexible Funding
• Accountability principle
• Capability principle

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Funding Streams

• Access to work
• Disabled Facilities grants
• Supporting people Monies
• Integrated Community Equipment Service
• Independent Living Fund
• Council provided social care

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How The funding breaks down
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What works for Older People

• Flexibility and control
• Different relationship with LA
• Small changes can make a big difference
• DPs (higher take up than expected)
• Prefer not to employ directly
• New things people buy include-
• Home deliveries / PA support on holiday / paying
  people in kind/ support to get out of the house/
  holidays

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Evaluation Summary KC
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Key Challenges

• Cultural Change
• Resource Allocation System
• Budget Pressures
• Charging
• Conflicting agendas
• Double running systems
• Role of ULOs / CILs
• Limited possibilities for aligning funding
  streams
• Commissioning / Decommissioning

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Resource Allocation System

• Version 3 reviewed with frontline feedback
• 1 Self Assessment form different points
  allocations
• Linked to FACS
• Eligibility and indicative amounts for social
  care and all 5 funding streams
• Exceptions logged aim to move to transitional
  amounts
• Mapping allocations against current spend
• Consultancy for modelling roll out

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User Involvement and Support Brokerage

• User and ULOs represented on Project Board and
  Working Group
• Post in local ULO to develop market in Support
  Services
• Free access to Support Planning for disabled
  people, their families and carers
• Planning Live events
• Free access to regular DIY Support Planning
  training for disabled people, carers and staff

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Next Steps

• Evaluation complete by Dec 07
• Formal Programme definition phase
• Full Integration of DPs
• Guidance and procedures reviewed
• Brokerage model developed
• RAS modelled and reviewed