Personalisation: changing the way we deliver social care
The City of London Corporation is changing the way that help is
provided to meet your social care needs or the needs of the person
for whom you care.
Personalisation is an approach where support is
focused on the individual, providing for their specific needs.
People can shape the services they receive, using their Individual
Budget.
An Individual Budget (IB) is an amount of money
given to you to meet your assessed social care and support needs
and to help you stay as independent as possible. The money can be
used to buy support which is tailored to your specific needs.
The budget can be made up of one or more of the following:
- City’s Contribution – based on assessment of need
- A personal contribution - based on a financial assessment
- Other funding sources, eg charity or family
Direct payments are cash payments paid directly
to citizens. These are one way of giving out the
indicative amount of an Individual Budget.
Download more information on the new approach to assessment and
reassessment in the
leaflet Social Care Personalisation (PDF,
765kb)