- Are you a provider of care services in Leeds?
- Are you interested in the impact personal budgets, and self-directed support as a whole, may have on your business?
- Do you already provide personalised services (services tailored to your customers’ needs and preferences)?
As an organisation which provides services for people with care needs, you'll already know this market is rapidly changing. More and more people will be choosing to take greater control over their support packages using personal budgets.
These pages are for sharing information around self-directed support with you as a provider. They include links to useful external websites plus information gathered at a variety of working groups.
We hope you will share your views and examples of working in new ways so that together we create better services for our customers.
We held a series of domiciliary care forum meetings that looked at a variety of topics including
- price and flexibility
- demand analysis
- workforce development
- outcomes
- concerns of providers
- quality assurance
Notes on these can be downloaded from the right hand side of this page for your information. There is also a report on the outcomes of the forum.
When to refer to Adult Social Care?
Sometimes someone you work with may show signs that they need more help than you were originally asked to provide. This may mean that they would benefit from having their needs assessed again by Adult Social Care to see what other support they may be eligible for to help them keep their independence.
Keep a lookout for anything that might suggest someone is at serious risk. Even if they don’t mention anything, there are some signs you should look out for - see Referral Advice for Providers for further details (downloadable from this page).
Self-assessment tool
Are you ready to deliver personalised services? Use the Progress for Providers self-assessment tool to check. This simple tool has been developed by providers and commissioners to help you think about your progress in responding to the personalisation agenda.
Provider-to-provider support
We have had a query from one provider wanting to work in partnership with other providers – let us know if you would use a system to link interested providers together.
Contact us
Do you have ideas and practice you would like to share, or questions you would like answered? Email them to us!
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