Children, Young People, Families and Carers Individual Budgets, Selfdirected Support, and the Taking

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Children, Young People, Families and
CarersIndividual Budgets, Self-directed Support,
and the Taking Control programme

• The BIG Event
• 19th March 2009

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Taking Control www.in-control.org.uk/children/
Barnet, Bradford, Calderdale, Cambridgeshire,
Camden, Devon, Dudley, Enfield, Gateshead,
Gloucestershire, Halton, Hull, Islington,
Kirklees, Lambeth, Leeds, Luton, Manchester,
Middlesborough, Newham, NE Lincolnshire, North
Tyneside, Northamptonshire, Northumberland,
Redbridge, Sandwell, South Tyneside,
Staffordshire, Wakefield
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• A first step in developing individual outcomes
  based commissioning for individuals
• A basis for linking different funding together
  into a single outcomes based plan
• Links with an overall outcomes based approach
  to commissioning

Stay Safe Be Healthy Make a Positive
Contribution Achieve Economic well-being Enjoy
and Achieve An allocation system based upon Every
Child Matters outcomes
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• Delivering outcomes
• Combining Funding
• Including Risk
• No prescribed model
• of introduction or use

Example Barnardos workers at a Childrens
Centre in Halton have been trained to plan with
families

• Every Childs Support Plan

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Supporting children and families.... Linking
with the Budget Holding Lead Professional role
to provide support to children, young people
and families extending the IB agenda across
Childrens Services
Layla works with her Budget Holding Lead
Professional, Together they plan how to use her
Individual Budget. She has used some of the money
to pay for Driving Lessons
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• Key outcomes Stay Safe, Be Healthy, Make a
  Positive Contribution, Enjoy and Achieve, Achieve
  Economic Well-being
• A set of questions covering the voice of the
  child, a positive approach to risk management,
  money management, important people, reviews.

Challenge Meeting a childs needs through using
part of the budget to provide support to family
members
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A Budget Holding Lead Professional can manage the
money for a child or young person Adult Services
could commission services open to all ages There
are few if any examples of Independent Brokers
there is a huge capacity within the current
community landscape for brokerage type support
Jackie manages an Individual Budget for a young
person in Middlesborough
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Challenge To maintain a level of in-house
provision in case of crisis and/or choice whilst
supporting the development of a diverse array of
support options

• Linking with the DCSF Commissioning Support
  programme
• Developing a small scale pilot with Shop4Support
  with an acknowledged potential
• across Childrens Services
• Developing relationships with large providers
  such as Action for Children

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Individual Budgets are Va Va Voom!
...its just transformed Ollys life, our life as
a family...Olly is included in activities with
his brother, we do things with really good
support...weve trained people to support Olly
including two people from the local Cycling Club
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A focus on the outcomes that the plan is
delivering rather than the process Stay Safe, Be
Healthy, Make a Positive Contribution, Achieve
Economic Well-being, Enjoy and Achieve

• I wish you had told me about this 10 years ago
  ... Ive got my family back, we are a family
  again
• Jan, who feels so much more relaxed about her son
  Grahams support that she has given up smoking
  (as has her husband)
• SPOT THE HEALTH OUTCOME!

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Progress

• From 7 to 31 members including PCT partners
• 9 Aiming High Pathfinders
• 44 live Individual Budgets including 3 for
  Children In Care (CIC) and the youngest person we
  know of who is 3 years old

.... this is how things should work across the
whole of childrens services... this is for all
children Jo Davidson Group Director Children
and Families Gloucestershire County Council
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• What next...?
• Extending membership
• Involving Health and Education
• Exploring Integrated budgets
• Collecting outcomes and delivering report in the
  Summer
• Continuing to develop a whole system approach
  across Childrens Services
• Linking up with Adult Services to explore common
  agendas around community capacity and
  provider/market development

Introducing Kirklees Childrens Services....