Community Care’s annual survey provides a timely piece of the jigsaw that will help us take stock and plan for action when it comes to implementing personal budgets. Other pieces of the jigsaw will include ADASS’s soon to be released final survey of progress towards Putting People First goals and results from the biggest survey yet of service users and carers’ experiences of personal budgets, which has been undertaken by Lancaster University, In Control and the Think Local, Act Personal Partnership. Various members of the partnership have commented on Community Care’s survey findings including Sue Bott for the National Centre for Independent Living, Alex Fox for NAAPS and Jeff Jerome, former National Director for Social Care Transformation. Also worth reading is Martin Routledge’s blog which directly responds to the survey.
New report highlights need for focus on personalisation, choice and control, says TLAP
The King’s Fund has today, 25 September 2026, published ‘Direct Payments: Creating the conditions for choice and control’. This new research explores why Direct Payment uptake varies so widely across England, and what local authorities can do to improve it. Think...
