An individual budget is one approach to enabling people to take more control of their own support - by giving people knowledge of what they are entitled to.
If people know what they are entitled to as a budget then they can plan how to get support in a more creative and empowering way. This was the idea that was at the heart of what has now become known as the Individual or Personal Budget.
The publisher is The Centre for Welfare Reform
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Person-Centred Planning, Self-Directed Support, social care, England, Graphic
