17.11.10
Carers to get more help
The government has announced that carers are to be given more support and more breaks, as part of its plans for adult social care, A vision for adult social care: Capable Communities and Active Citizens .
This will include all carers being given a personal budget by 2013. Personal budgets were introduced in 1996 but according to the government only around thirteen per cent of people who need one, have one at the moment.
Paul Burstow said: “Personal budgets can make an incredible difference to people’s lives. They give people choice, control and independence.
They look to people not the state to shape services, and improve outcomes, making a reality of the Big Society. I want councils to provide everyone eligible with a personal budget by 2013.”
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