Individual Budgets: Challenges and Opportunities

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focus
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micro
providers

• Individual Budgets Challenges and Opportunities
  
• Sian Lockwood

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What is NAAPS?

• NAAPS is a UK charity.
• We represent very small (micro) services
  provided by individuals and families in
  communities across the UK
• We promote good standards of practice in the
  services that we represent

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Our aim
To promote the use of individuals and families
as community resources
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What are micro services?

• Micro services are
• Local Provided by individuals and families in
  communities
• Responsive Set up in response to individual need
  or request
• Individual Provided for very small numbers of
  people (usually no more than 5)

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Examples of micro services

• Adult Placement
• Homeshare
• Care homes and lodgings providers
• Day services
• Services providing support to people in their
  own homes

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Why people value micro services

• Micro services
• Are individual people can find the service that
  exactly suits them
• Are local people needing services do not have
  to leave their own community
• Provide local jobs people do not have to leave
  their own community to find a job
• Are cost effective (not cheap!)

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IBs and Micro Services

• Two examples of individually purchased micro
  services

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A bespoke adult placement

• Sallys Story
• Knowing what you want doesnt always mean you
  get it easily

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A micro day service

• Occupational Therapists
• with a difference

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Opportunities

• (Nearly) doing away with the middleman!
• Listening and responding to what people really
  want
• New people providing services in a different way
• Job satisfaction - so staff retention?

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Challenges

• Self directed support a challenge to practice
• A new kind of relationship?
• How will the money work?
• Finding and supporting micro providers
• Communicating directly with people with budgets
• Is it really going to happen - and will it last?

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Contact

• Sian Lockwood
• sian_at_naaps.org.uk
• Tel [phone]
• Mob [phone]

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Finally

• Do you have any questions?