How care providers can help negotiate the maze of personal budgets
Added on 12/09/13
Individual service funds remove the stress of budgeting for vulnerable clients, but they will require trust from commissioners.
Carers Rights Day
Added on 12/09/13
Carers Rights Day, organised by Carers UK, is taking place on the 29th November 2013. This years theme is 'rights, advice, support'.
Most councils met 70% personal budgets target, say directors
Added on 12/09/13
Council-managed personal budgets still predominate over direct payments, finds annual survey by Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.
Driving Up Quality Code
Added on 11/09/13
Think Local Act Personal welcomes the Driving Up Quality Code for Learning Disability Services, which has been developed in response to the Winterbourne View action plan.
Department of Health Personalisation of Care Summit
Added on 10/09/13
The Care Services Minister Norman Lamb is hosting a 'personalisation of care summit' on Wednesday 11 September.
Can personalisation in social care succeed in a time of austerity?
Added on 10/09/13
Martin Routledge, TLAP's Self Directed Support Lead blogs for the Guardian Social Care Network asks can personalisation in social care succeed in a time of austerity?
Peer brokers help other care-users manage their own services
Added on 06/09/13
People managing long-term conditions are being trained to support others to find care, helping to reduce councils' social care bills
Personal health budgets to drive decommissioning of NHS services
Added on 06/09/13
CCGs will need to decommission unpopular services to make personal health budgets work the Nuffield Trust has warned.
Making it Real for Young Carers - new report
Added on 05/09/13
TLAP has today launched Making it Real for Young Carers; the report has been coproduced by young carers and written in their own words.
Small providers can deliver highly personalised home care
Added on 03/09/13
Micro-social care enterprises offer individualised, flexible services to people in their community. Sian Lockwood's blog for the Guardian Social Care Network