Individual budgets

The use of individual budgets put the people who are in receipt of a service at the centre of the funding for that service.

Inclusion Plus Ltd can help individuals devise support plans to help meet personal needs and help purchase support from social services, the private sector, the voluntary sector and community groups or neighbours, friends or family members.

Inclusion Plus Ltd, can also provide support for groups or organisations who wish to support individuals in accessing individual budgets, through training and development sessions incorporating personalisation and individual budgets.

By having individual budgets your choice and control will be enhanced and you will have access to greater universal public and community services. Individual budgets combine resources from different funding streams to which an individual is entitled:

• local authority social care
• integrated community equipment services
• Disabled Facilities Grants
• supporting people for housing-related support
• Access to Work
• DLA
• Independent Living Fund.

Individual budgets can be utilised in several ways:

• by the individual as a cash direct payment
• by a care/case manager
• by a trust
• as an indirect payment to a third party
• held by a service provider.

Inclusion Plus will be happy to outline and discuss exactly what you pay for with a detailed briefing paper of this service and breakdown of costs on enquiry.