Individual budgets for families with disabled children

The personalisation of public services has been a consistent direction of policy over the last few years. This has been maintained by the UK Coalition Government, with the recent Green Paper including a clear expectation of increased choice and control for young people and families.

A series of pilots were commissioned to test whether the Individual Budgets (IB) concept and approach worked in practice, and to what extent the approach was cost-effective. This evidence in turn would help to inform any decision on rolling out of IBs.

This report seeks to present a detailed assessment of the process related progress made by the pilot sites over the original two-year pilot programme. As such, the report focuses on the means by which the pilots were set-up and delivered, and the resource and infrastructure requirements associated with the IB approach, where progress is measured against the ten elements of the Common Delivery Model.

To see then report, click here.