For provider organisations, working to adapt to personalisation at a time of shrinking resources can be a real challenge. Shifting systems, practices and behaviours in response to personal budget holders and more broadly personalising support for peo...

This week has offered signs that the debate about the future of adult social work might be about to get moving. Paul Burstow's comments at the launch of the College of Social Work and the press in advance of the College's own event on the future of so...

A regular and understandable challenge to the shift towards personalisation comes from those who point to groups of people clearly not benefitting well at present. Sometimes challengers suggest that personalisation is not relevant or not wanted by som...

An invitation to help take self-directed support forward...

This past year has been a very challenging one for many of us. This may be because you've been desperately trying to make the best use of limited resources in your organisation or you're an individual that has faced worry and uncertainty over the prov...

You might have seen that the Department of Health is asking for people's views as it looks to develop a new White Paper on social care next spring. There are a number of areas it wants views about including personalisation.

Over the past few weeks there has been much debate about personal budgets in an era of austerity with some good discussion about challenges and possible solutions. However 'Think Local Act Personal' is about more than personal budgets. The much bigger...

You'll remember Sliding Doors the film - where Gwyneth Paltrow has two different lives depending on whether she catches a certain train or not. I'm feeling a bit like that with personal budgets. We know that personal budgets done properly work better ...

Following, Panorama's shocking programme, Phoebe Caldwell, an expert practitioner in Intensive Interaction and a regular speaker on our Partners in Policymaking courses, blogs about how people with autism are still misunderstood.

Juie Stansfield chief executive of In Control responds to the shocking BBC Panorama programme - 'Undercover Care'.