personal budget

Are personal budgets really the way ahead for social care?

Draw up your own personal budget for a typical week.

Social Workers have repeatedly offered to my mother and me a personal budget for her.

In addition, there may be options for using personal budgets.

A personal budget is like a diet plan for your finances.

We're rolling out personal budgets to the people who receive care.

Now change the monetary values in your personal budget into percentages.

The move to personal budgets and direct payments should help, but let me get back to you.

Personal budgets let people receiving social care select the services they want.

If you have a job, your personal budget for a week might look something like this:

By 2011, at least one third of all care users will be managing personal budgets.

"Staff who support people with personal budgets need to know the options, risks and processes."

Special emphasis is placed on teaching clients how to manage a personal budget.

There are over 800 people who have personal budgets.

For many people, creating a personal budget is the first time they take a hard look at the way they spend money.

This is true personalised care, and achieved without personal budgets.

Any strain on your personal budget can also put the financial success of your business at risk.

"But if someone receives a personal budget, it enables us to detect what may have been going on before."

What must not be forgotten, she says, is that personal budgets have helped to transform many people's lives by giving them control.

Students there say any increases strain their stretched personal budgets.

How to tackle social care fraud involving personal budgets 4.

Past spending and personal debt are considered when creating a personal budget.

Yet, when you decide to put your gift card to use, remember your personal budget as well.

Such settings could even be compatible with the pooling of personal budget funds.

Service users can spend their personal budgets on activities such as horticultural projects.