Individual Budgets

Useful links to resources related to Individual Budgets:

CSIP

  • Making personal budgets work for older people: developing experience was published at the end of October 2008 and looks at how the individual budgets pilot schemes worked in the context of experience from older people.
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  • Making Individual Budgets work for Older People published at the end of October. This document looks at the findings from the Individual Budget Pilot Evaluation in the use for older people. Download  the document.

THE AUDIT COMMISSION

  • has published guidance on Individual Budgets and Direct Payments for appointed auditors. More information

THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

  • Has published a report evaluating the Individual Budgets pilot scheme.Read the report  from the DH website.

THE SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH UNIT, THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK

  • The University of York’s Social Policy Research Unit was involved in the evaluation on the Individual Budget Pilot programme.Visit their findings page where you can download findings, summary and the final report.