TY  - JOUR
AB  - This article presents the findings of an evaluation of the impact on service users of a local authority's individual budgets pilot. The local authority has pursued an outcomes‐focused approach to care planning. The research findings suggest that these service users and their families see individual budgets as a very positive development. Service users have been able to gain greater control over their lives, not least in that they are able to determine to a much greater extent how they have their needs met. This facilitates service users' general growth and development, such that they are able to engage more fully and on a more equal footing as part of their families and communities. However, there remain a number of challenges that need to be addressed if individual budgets, or personal budgets generally, are to be rolled out successfully across adult social and health care.
VL  - 16
IS  - 3
SN  - 1476-9018
DO  - 10.1108/14769018200800021
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018200800021
AU  - Daly Guy
AU  - Roebuck Annette
AU  - Dean Jennifer
AU  - Goff Fiona
AU  - Bollard Martin
AU  - Taylor Clare
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - Gaining Independence: An Evaluation of Service Users' Accounts of the Individual Budgets Pilot
T2  - Journal of Integrated Care
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 17
EP  - 25
Y2  - 2024/09/20
ER  -