Personalisation aims to shift support for citizens from a "professional gift model" to a "citizenship model" with greater citizen control, community involvement, and redefined professional roles. This includes self-directed support with individual budgets allowing control and independence. Data shows this approach can reduce spending while improving lives by empowering choice and community participation.
3. The use of “Personalisation”
• Rhetoric - Inoffensive term of art (Charles
Leadbeater)
• Policy Broad parcel of policies (Putting
People First)
• Technologies - Self-Directed Support,
Individual Budgets - to be explored
further below
• But these uses point to a more
5. Professional Gift
Model
•> 40% of GDP committed to welfare
•Government transfers much
responsibility for delivering welfare
to professions
•Professions organise support
around their expertise.
•Citizens have low levels of control,
weak entitlements and often face
perverse incentives
6. Citizenship Model
•Build-in citizen
control
•Assume the value
and role of
community
•Rethink
professional roles
•Redefine gifts as
entitlements and
contracts
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26. Carers perception of changes since SDS
Finances
Ability to care
Quality of life
Well-being
Leisure & Social Life
Work
Better
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Worse
Other relationships
Choice & control
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Data from Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire & Worcestershire
27. Economic Data
Place Number Change
6 Sites Phase I Report 60 -18%
17 Sites Phase II
128 -9%
Report
13 Sites IBSEN Report 203 -6%
Northants 17 -18.7%
City of London 10 -30%
Worcestershire 73 -17%
33. Models of efficiency
•Resource focus - control price
•Process focus - generate innovation
•Outcome focus - build capacity - prevent need
34. Total Place
•Partnership to achieve
locally defined
outcomes
•Build on local assets
•Coproduce solutions
•Think beyond services
- people &
communities
•Create possibility of
innovation
35. Contact Details
Simon Duffy
Centre for Welfare Reform
The Quadrant,
99 Parkway Avenue, Parkway Business Park
Sheffield, S9 4WG
T +44 114 251 1790
M +44 7729 7729 41
admin@centreforwelfarereform.org
www.centreforwelfarereform.org