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Personalisation in Adult Social Care is about giving individuals choice and control over the support they receive to live their lives as independently as possible.

In Bracknell Forest we are working to ensure that everyone who is eligible can have a Personal Budget – this is an amount of money to spend on the social care support that people need to live their lives.

People will be able to take this as a Direct Payment and arrange their support themselves or they can choose to leave the money with the Council and the Council will arrange the support for them.

Everyone who has a personal budget will need to have a financial assessment – this is to make sure that people are claiming all the benefits they are entitled to and also calculates the amount of money that an individual needs to contribute towards the cost of their support.

In Bracknell Forest all people with a learning disability, who are eligible for support from Adult Social Care, can have a Personal Budget.

For older people, people with mental health problems and people with long term conditions we have a pilot project to test out our systems – the Council plans to be able to offer everyone, who wants one and who is eligible, a personal budget later in 2010.

We are also working with providers and voluntary sector groups to ensure that there are the flexible support options and activities in the community that people want and can access.

Following a consultation with local people, we have also developed a Information, Advice and Advocacy Strategy to improve the range, quality and availability of information that is available to people who may need some support to live their lives as independently as possible. You can download the strategy and an easy read version from this page.

If you would like more information about the personalisation programme please send an email to the address below or please call Adult Social Care on 01344 351500 and ask for the Personalisation Team.

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