The individual budget pilot programme is an important part of the government's agenda to give people who use public services more choice and control.The main idea behind individual budgets is to put the person who is supported, or given services, control of deciding what support or services they get.
Individual Budgets aim to:
Give people a clear, up-front idea about how much money there is for their support
Make assessment quicker and easier and mean people have to give out information fewer times
Bring together different kinds of support or funding from more than one agency
Let people use the money in a way that best suits their own needs and situation
Have support to plan what they want and to organise it, from a broker or advocate, family or friends, as the individual wants
Not cost the Local Authority any more
Individual budgets put people in the centre of the planning process, and recognise that they are the person best placed to understand their own needs and how to meet them.
Individual budgets are flexible enough to allow people who are satisfied with existing services to keep these, and also give people a range of options for building up more individually tailored support, using Direct Payments and other routes.
For more information please see our detailed fact sheet
Self Directed Support - Individualised Budgets/In Control
Self Directed Support - Individualised Budgets/In Control (Large Print)
Please contact the Adult Duty and Intervention Service by:
Phone: 0161 770 1515
Fax: 0161 770 1519
Email: adis@oldham.gov.uk
Post: The Adult Duty and Intervention Service, The Link Centre,140 Union Street, Oldham OL1 1DZ
Updated CO/07/2008