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Research and Evaluation reports

Below are links to reports describing progress in different local authorities. The reports aim to evaluate the effect of Self-Directed Support on the lives of people who have Personal Budgets, their families and the staff who support them.

This is a growing list of reports. Each time a  report is published, its page is added to our RSS news feed. For information about undertaking an evaluation in your area, please contact john.waters@in-control.org.uk

You can also listen to people talking about their experiences of self directed support on our video pages Video page


  • Your Support Your way – Richmond upon Thames report
    Your Support Your way is the story so far of Self Directed Support in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
    04/02/2010
  • Self-Directed Support in Hartlepool 2006-2009
    This is a report of Hartlepool’s progress in developing Self-Directed Support over the last three years.
    19/01/2010
  • Way Ahead – North Lanarkshire
    Way Ahead is our early experience in North Lanarkshire of demonstrating the impact of the in Control approach.
    27/10/2009
  • My Budget My Choice City of London report
    My Budget My Choice is a report describing work in the City of London that led to people from different social care groups taking control of a personal budget. The report tells of how one couple, who had been married for many years when threatened with living apart, used a personal budget to avoid the imminent prospect of residential care.
    23/05/2009
  • It's Your Life - take control Hertfordshire report
    This report describes work undertaken in Hertfordshire. The report describes how local people with learning disabilitites and their families took control of a Personal Budget allocated to them by the Local Authority.
    23/05/2009
  • This time it's personal Northamptonshire report
    The work of Northamptonshire learning disability service described in this report went on to win a coveted health and social care award for dignity in care.
    14/05/2009
  • Doing it your way Worcesteshire report
    This report from Worcestershire contains data showing the impact of self directed support on people who were allocated personal budgets, their family carers and the social workers whose job it was to support them.
    14/05/2009
  • Steering my own course Cambridgeshire report
    This report describes work undertaken in Cambridgeshire between October 2005 and December 2008. The report centres on 56 people with learning disabilities and their families taking control of a Personal Budget allocated to them by the Local Authority.
    24/04/2009

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