Background to Individual Budgets
• Longstanding commitment to flexible, person-centred care in policy from 1980s
• Existing development of direct payments, but low take up by older people
• Increasing focus upon personalisation and greater choice in many jurisdictions; 2006 White Paper confirmed
• July 2005 – invitation to English Local Authorities to be Individual Budget pilots – 13 selected
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