Research has demonstrated that person centred planning leads to positive changes for people. This paper shows how person centred planning is associated with benefits in the areas of community development, contact with friends and family, and choic...

The latest results of a pilot scheme, initiated by In Control, which offered personalised budgets to rough sleepers have shown it to be a remarkable success.

Presentation, from In Control's Big Event 2010, about homelessness and personal budgets in the City of London.

This paper, written by Jim Rogers, examines some of the arguments for allowing personal health budgets to access complementary and alternative therapies and medicines (CAM) and highlights some of the potential objections and obstacles to this.

This short film, made by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, looks at the work of a personal budget team in Hull.

This is a paper about new learning and a new way of working in social care. It includes the people development jigsaw and action plan.

A document providing guidance for local authorities about workforce development.

Easy read booklet about staff evaluation. Wrexham Council and Paradigm worked together on a training course to support people who have learning disabilities to recruit staff. This is the training pack and evaluation.

Easy read booklet about Training and choosing your own staff. This book will help you to train other people how to choose their own staff. Inside are all of the exercises that you will need with instructions on how to do them.

This discussion paper is primarily focused on the issue of the relationship between personalisation and safeguarding.