Personalisation
Personalisation is the name given to the creation of a more responsive system of personal social care with the introduction of personal budgets and direct payments for service users. UNISON supports the principle that everyone should have as much independence, choice and control over their own care and support arrangements as is right for them.UNISON believes that the current funding gap is likely to mean that personalisation promises more than it can deliver. UNISON workers in social care have in recent years seen their jobs and roles change, mass privatisation, closing down of local services and ever tighter rationing of care.
As a result of underfunding personalisation is becoming synonymous with less choice, increased privatisation and growth of an unregulated care service. UNISON's personalisation campaign aims to build a powerful coalition for sustained investment in social care to deliver:
- Real independence, control and choice for service users
- A valued well paid, trained and skilled social care workforce
- Services which are well funded through public provision
- A standardised employment and regulatory framework for all personalisation care workers
UNISON launches Who Cares: Who Pays? report on personalisation
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Who cares: Who pays
A report on personalisation in social care.
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Who cares: Who pays
This briefing summarises the main findings of the independent report - Who cares: who pays? Personalisation in social care.
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What's happening to day centre services?
New UNISON research collaboration.Personalisation E- Newsletter - May 2011
The main threats to the provision of local, quality personalised social care are the devastating social care budget cuts that we have witnessed over the last year. Newsletter - May 2011Employment rights for Personal Assistants
Launch of new UNISON report for Personal Assistants on employment rights.Up close and personal - Personalisation Toolkit for branches and activists
UNISON has been at the forefront of campaigning and negotiating to ensure that issues around the development of the care workforce have been placed at the heart of the personalisation of adult social care services. Our branches around the country have been dealing with the workplace issues that personalised care entails.Up Close and Personal
December issue of UNISON's e-newsletter on personalisation in social care.UNISON Social Care survey
UNISON survey on the impact of personalisation on commissioning social care< Back | More >
