Personalisation
''Personalisation has the potential to provide the voluntary and community sector with tremendous opportunities for development and innovation but also poses critical challenges as we need to adapt to a more market driven environment. If we can manage the challenges the benefits for everyone could be enormous – after all flexibility, creativity and innovation are at the core of our sector!”
Barbara Booton, Personal Budgets Support Group
What is Personalisation?
Adult Social care is undergoing a transformation – the transformation is known as Personalisation. Under the old system professionals made the decisions about what kind of support Individuals service users could have and who would provide it. This meant that the person needing support had very little choice in or control over the support they needed.
Personalisation puts the individual service users at the centre by giving choice and control over the support they receive with a greater emphasis on prevention and early intervention. Personal Budgets will help individuals achieve personalisation –by giving an allocation of money that can be used to design and purchase the support needed. This means that services will be designed and delivered from the starting point of individual’s needs and wishes instead of individuals having to fit in to existing services.
To find out more about personalisation, follow the links below:
- Doncaster Personalisation Forum
- Personalisation Research Project - Understanding Personalisation
- Reading Materials and Useful Links
- Personalisation Archive
If you would like to discuss the personalisation in more detail, please contact Karen Wardman on telephone number 01302 343300 ext 221 or email kwardman@doncastercvs.org.uk.
