Fighting Monsters has written an excellent blog about how personalisation and the stretched social care system is failing older people and those with mental health issues. What do other people think? We'd be interested to hear your views, and particularly what could be done.
let's face, it personalisation is failing all client groups.
You might as well add learning disabilities, physical disabilities, carers, etc. etc.
whatever the noble intentions were initially, in the current financial climate it's now being used as an excuse to close statutory-run day services and cease to block purchase services from the private and voluntary sector.
Jeremy: Fighting Monsters has written an excellent blog about how personalisation and the stretched social care system is failing older people and those with mental health issues. What do other people think? We'd be interested to hear your views, and particularly what could be done.
Personalisation has become an absolute illusion...
There can be no choices to be made when assessment and funding is only awarded to cover 'critical' needs and for personal care only....social care needs appear to be a thing of the distant past
It is farcical.. Yet SCIE continue with the dogmatic mantra of upbeat and overt selling of the idea and scheme. Choices are great. Funding that denies those choices is not and expose the truth of the matter......it is a cost cutting exercise and always was...
pj
Failing may not be the right word, I think lack of clear information, the process in itself of applying for personal budgets is daunting. Confusing about the clarity of use with money. People already struggle with understanding the complex implemtation of this and perhaps more training needs to be done in this area.
I am at lost trying to understand how to have a better life with this.
We've had an interesting contribution from a reader about the research on personal budgets from Think Local Act Personal and In Control - his view is that its findings point to the impact of personal budgets being tied to the level of funding that people receive. That was one of the findings of the research (the bigger the budget the better the outcomes, broadly speaking) but this was among a range of factors that determined positive or negative outcomes; however, this reader reckons that this is the big finding from the research - in which case, with cuts already being applied to personal budgets we're in trouble.
Block purchase is best dispensed with, it is the anthema of personalisation
So the more money someone has the better their outcomes? Didn't need to survey 2000 people to work that one out lol