England
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Architecture for Personalisation
A report describing progress in Yorkshire & Humber towards developing a community-based approach to supporting personalisation and self-directed support.
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Decision-Making in Health
When our life is threatened and real expertise offers us some possibility of extending or improving our life then it makes sense to share control with appropriate professionals.
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Individual Service Fund (ISF)
An Individual Service Fund is a mechanism for controlling an individual budget using an organisation.
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Helping Providers to Change
This is a book by Self Direct that focuses on the work necessary to help service providers change and to develop more personalised forms of support.
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Personalisation in Mental Health
A report setting out a model for integrating health and social care for people with mental health services - designed to promote personalisation, empowerment and citizenship.
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Constitutional Social Justice
An essay on the possibilities of radical reform within the welfare state.
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Personalisation Model
The Personalisation Model provides a framework for reorganising public services so that the citizen remains in control of their own life and any support that they need.
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Personalised Transition
An evaluation of a new and radical policy innovation in Sheffield which gives young people with disabilities and their families a totally new level of control over their life…
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Personalised Pathway
This model enables families with disabled children to take effective control over their support, while getting coordinated expert support.
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Personalised Transition
Personalised Transition is a system for enabling young people with complex needs to leave school and to achieve active citizenship within their communities.
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Should We Ban Brokerage?
Local authorities need to make much better use of all the varied resources that communities already have to offer when building the support system for Self-Directed Support.
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Being the Boss is Best
An article which describes the benefits of being your own boss.
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Real Wealth
Money is only one way of achieving things and it can only achieve some things. What people really need in order to live good lives is the elements of Real Wealth.
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Professional Gift Model
The Professional Gift Model remains the prevalent model for public services, whereby support is defined by professionals and given as a unilateral gift to needy people.
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Resource Allocation System (RAS)
A Resource Allocation System (RAS) is any set of rules that allows fair allocations to be made to people who need extra support.
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Individual Service Fund (ISF)
An Individual Service Fund is a useful way in which resources can be used flexibly to achieve personalised support.
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Decision-Making in Health
The focus for decision-making in healthcare needs to change depending upon the circumstances and the level of clinical evidence available.
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Self-Directed Support
Self-directed support is the 7 step process by which people obtain control over their support in order to achieve a better life for themselves.
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Smart Commissioning
In the past commissioners were told by central government that their job was to purchase services on behalf of citizens; this model turns that idea around.
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Tapered Control
People need Tapered Control, different levels of control, depending upon their needs and circumstances.
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Total Transformation
The process of transformation is complex and multi-layered, however it is possible to identify an underlying logic and phasing.
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Personalisation in Social Care
This article explores how the current reforms in social care are rooted in a radically different approach to social justice and welfare to those that preceded them.