Personal budgets tool
Think Local Act Personal have developed a Personal Budgets Minimum Process Framework to help councils by suggesting simpler and less bureaucratic ways to meet people’s needs. It lists what councils must do to meet their Care Act responsibilities, and addresses many of the process problems reported by people who use services, carers and families. This framework … Read more
Fit for Frailty best practice guidance
This Fit for Frailty best practice guidance has been produced by The Royal College of General Practitioners and recommends a move away from traditional ‘activity’ based contracts to a model that sees providers paid for helping people who use their services to achieve agreed goals. The guidance says that this would ensure that outcomes relevant to … Read more
A guide on being active
Research shows that most disabled people are not as active as they would like to be, and this free guide has been produced by the English Federation of Disability Sport in partnership with Disability Rights UK, to give disabled people access to information so that they have control over where, what and how they can start … Read more
Small Good Stuff has a new poster
The folks at Community Catalysts who run the Small Good Stuff website for community micro social care and support providers now have a new Small Good Stuff poster which we think looks rather nice. Check it out here and please do feel free to share it with any community micro care or support providers that you know who might be interested in … Read more
Latest plan to end inappropriate learning disability care revealed, following failure to meet Winterbourne target
The latest plan to end inappropriate learning disability hospital placements post-Winterbourne View has been revealed, following commissioners’ failure to meet a government target to do so. An article from Community Care reporting on this new plan is available here. Read more
How LAs allocate resources to carers through personal budgets
The NIHR School for Social Care Research have published the research findings of a study on how local authorities allocate resources to carers through personal budgets. The key aims of this study were to explore what approaches local authorities in England were using to determine eligibility for and levels of Carer Personal Budgets, and why these … Read more