Unit 5 Health And Social Care Essay

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Over the last 5 years, in health and social care sector, there has been rapid developments in personalisation. The developments in personalisation include developing a more flexible model of provision based on greater control, independence and choice for service users. The Valuing People White Paper on services for people with learning disabilities (Department of Health, 2001a) announced its ‘new vision’, in which public service provision would be based on these key principles including independence, choice and social inclusion. More specifically, the announcement in relation to legal and civil rights marked that ‘all public services will treat people with learning disabilities as individuals with respect for their dignity, and challenge discrimination …show more content…

The budgets can be arranged in different ways such as a direct payment, indirect payments and managed personal budgets. Direct payments involve service users entirely or partly managing their personal budget, indirect payments involve a third party, usually a family member, managing the budget on behalf of the individual; or finally the budget is exclusively managed by a care manager or social worker, which is known as a managed personal budget. Although it is the government’s intention to make direct payments the main form of arrangement of personal budgets (DoH, 2010a); it is important to consider that Manthorpe et al. (2009) found that there are many concerns about the negative consequences of personal budgets on people with learning disabilities. There is an argument to be made that fears were expressed that using unregulated care workers or even family relatives may leave disabled at greater risk of abuse. This abuse could come in many forms including physical abuse, neglect, financial abuse or exploitation or unfairly receiving poorer quality support from wider networks or services (Ferguson, 2007 and Leece, 2010). (expand and link to

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