This document provides an overview of personal budgets and personalization in health and social care. It outlines the key features and benefits of personal budgets, and how they can positively and negatively impact individuals. Learners will research direct payments and managed accounts, discuss case studies, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of personal budgets to understand how personalization can benefit service users.

1. GETTING STARTED
Write down your wishes and aspirations for the future. Explain the support you need
to meet them.

2. PERSONALISATION
In Health and Social Care

3. LESSON 2: BUDGETS
• Key features
• Benefits
• Impacts

4. OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES
Learning Objective:
You will understand the key features of personalisation. In particular, personal
budgets and the benefits and negative impacts it has on the individual.
Learning Outcome:
By the end of this lesson you should be able to explain what benefits and impacts are
associated to personalisation in relation to personal budgets.

5. WHAT IS A PERSONAL BUDGET?

6. ACTIVITY
Research two forms of personal budget:
• Direct payments
• Managed accounts
Question:
On your own, research what each form of personal budget is. Write it down!
Then, in pairs discuss who needs them, and why.

7. CASE STUDY
Handouts given.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of personal budgets?

8. POSITIVES AND CHALLENGES
• Answers Impacts of personalisation in regards to the 2 Case studies.

9. BENEFITS OF PERSONALISATION
• The benefits of personalisation in regards to the case studies.

10. CHECKING UNDERSTANDING
Using your whiteboards which colour applies to you?

11. HOMEWORK
Do the green box activity on page 114.