Although the Care Act placed legal force behind personal budgets, responses to Community Care’s survey suggest they are not offering the choice to recipients that was intended.
This survey echoes many of the same issues people with direct payments report to Disability Rights UK on our helpline.
Lack of social care funding and ignorance about how personalisation should work is resulting in choice and control being taken away from disabled people.
More money for social care is imperative. So too is a cultural change which enables us to decide for ourselves how our support needs are met.