Individual Budgets

Your life - your choice

Individual Budgets take the money which Social Services would spend in meeting someone’s care needs and puts the user in control of how that money gets spent. This is done by telling people how much they are entitled to and putting them at the centre of the planning process. We help them to work out what they need and to plan how they want their needs met.

At the heart of the scheme it is the recognition that the service user is the person best placed to understand their needs. Secondly, Individual Budgets involves a commitment from us to enable people to take as much control over their care and support as they feel comfortable with.

The purpose of Individual Budgets is to encourage people to take responsibility for their own social care budget, to be able to manage their own support and choose the services that suit them best using money from different funds more flexibly than is currently agreed under present arrangements.

• what are the benefits of Individual Budgets over the way things are normally done?
• how can I get more information on Individual Budgets?
• contact the Individual Budgets team

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• what makes for a good support broker?
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Accessibility

It you require information on Individual Budgets in another format or language, please contact the Individual Budgets team

Social Services

• Adoption and Fostering
• Carers
• Children and Families
• Drug and Alcohol Misuse
• HIV and AIDS
• Mental Capacity Act
• Mental Health
• Older People
• People with a disability
• Refugees/Asylum
• Youth Offending Team
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