New Pooling Personal budgets factsheet

Mon,26 January 2015
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Pooling Personal Budgets is another way to empower disabled people and promote choice in how they wish to lead their life

Recipients of personal budgets decide to bring together/pool their resources i.e. their budgets, skills, efforts, and other 'assets' to achieve defined outcomes and do things that they wish to do as a group.

‘Pooling’ is the grouping together and combination of the disabled people’s assets to carry out their objectives and goals to meet their needs effectively. This maximizes their independence and control over how they make changes in their life.

Whilst “pooling” personal budgets is not a new idea, it’s not as yet a widely recognised method of using personal budgets. This factsheet tells you what you need to know to pool your own budgets.