3-year study on Personal Budget holders
In October 2008, Essex County Council (ECC) introduced Personal Budgets for adult social care, available to older and/or disabled people across the county.
The Office for Public Management (OPM) is working in partnership with ecdp to deliver a three-year longitudinal study on Personal Budgets.
Aims of the study
The study has two main aims:
- To provide crucial new knowledge on what it is like to live on a Personal Budget and the impact they can have on individual’s lives, their carers and families, service providers and service commissioners over a period of time
- To produce evidence of the way Personal Budgets and are being delivered by ECC, assess the effectiveness of the approach, and make evidence-based recommendations for real-time improvements to delivery.
A short introduction to the study is available here: Introduction to the OPM-ecdp 3-year Personal Budget study (pdf file).
Study findings
Below are the findings available from the study so far (note: these are also available on OPM’s website). This section will be updated with new findings as soon as we have them.
- January 2009 – Rational for the study and key achievements so far (Word document)
- Summer 2009 – Reflections on early findings (Word document)
- July 2010 – Key results from first round of interviews (pdf document)
More information
For more information about this study or any of the results above, please contact:
- Sarah Holloway, Senior Research, OPM, on 020 7239 7800
- Rich Watts, Director of Policy & Development at ecdp, on 01245 392 300
