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Wiltshire’s Transitions Strategy includes a statement about the useof lead professionals:Aim Provide a lead professional as a named contact to linkservices together for service users, parents and carersAction Lead professional ensures parents, carers and service usersunderstand and are prepared for transitions process. Parents andcarers are informed of lead professional and role of agenciesduring transition in Year 8.Lead professionals are identified for all service users to linkservices together. Lead professional allocated in Year 9 andoversees the implementation of the transitions plan.Quality standardsSee Checklist C1 in Appendix 6 for quality standards around key workersand lead professionals.Chapter 3: Participation and further supportKey workers and lead professionalsKey legislation, guidance and resourcesThe role of lead professional is identified in the Children Act 2004 as akey element in ensuring that frontline services provide integrateddelivery for families.The Care Coordination Network UK produced a set of standards for keyworkers in 2004. This can be found at www.ccnuk.org.ukInformation on how key worker and lead professional roles aredeveloping can be found at www.everychildmatters.gov.ukFurther information on legislation and guidance can be found in theresources pages at the back and in Appendices 1 and 2.Supporting disabled young people and theirfamilies: direct payments and individual budgets‘Individual budget pilots are already demonstrating that some people arelooking for very different services to those traditionally commissioned bycouncils.’ 4545 The state of socialcare in England2005–06: Executivesummary, CSCI,December 2006?WhoDisabled young people, families, children’s social workers, family supportworkers, personal assistants, all service providers?Wherechildren’s services departments, family support services, leisure services, localsupport agencies54
IntroductionDirect Payments and individual budgets represent a shift in thinking aboutsupport. Both are alternatives to direct service provision from localauthorities and are about shifting the balance of choice and control toservice users and away from service providers.Access to direct payments and individual budgetsDirect payments become an option once families have received anassessment from children’s services. It is important to remember that DirectPayments do not change eligibility criteria or assessment processes.However, if an assessment identifies needs for the young person or carer infamilies, which might have been provided by direct service provision thefamily and young person must be offered the choice of direct payments asan alternative. 46 Families can choose to have all of their identified needs metthrough Direct Payments, some of them or none of them. Direct paymentsare paid to parents of disabled children up to the age of 18. At 16 and 17disabled young people can choose to have them in their own right. In someareas protocols have been worked out to help ensure a smooth transition toadult services that enable young people to employ the same personalassistant when moving into adult services.Building on the learning from direct payments, a small number of localauthorities are piloting Individual Budgets in children’s services. TheDepartment of Health publication ‘Our health, our care, our say: a newdirection for community services’, published in 2006, sets out plans to pilotindividual budgets. An Individual Budget is designed to provide individualswho currently receive services with a greater choice and control over theirsupport arrangements. The government is committed to piloting individualbudgets with a view to rolling them out nationally should they provesuccessful. A further decision on whether to develop a wider pilotprogramme for young people under 18 is currently awaited. Seewww.everychildmatters.gov.uk for updates on this work.Chapter 3: Participation and further supportDirect payments and individual budgetsEffective practiceDevon In-House Direct Payments serviceDevon is divided into five areas, each area has a Children’s DirectPayments worker.Once a Keyworker has spoken to a family and an assessment ofneed has been carried out by the Children and Young People’steam, and if the family are interested, the Direct Payments workertalks to family and explains how direct payments works. This willinclude detail about aspects of direct payments such as what themoney can be spent on and how to employ someone.46 Health and SocialCare Act 2001 S57In Devon it works well having dedicated posts in the children’steam. The workers have a good understanding of families’ needs.55
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