Consultation on Direct Payments or Personal Budget rate for people with Personal Assistants

Consultation on Direct Payments or Personal Budget rate for people with Personal Assistants

Northamptonshire Adult Social Services have completed a review in January 2018 in relation to one aspect of Direct Payments (Direct Payments are also sometimes called Personal Budgets). They looked at how they work out the rates that they pay in Direct Payments for those people who employ Personal Assistants to meet their support needs. As a result of this review, they have devised some proposals which they are consulting on.

Please visit their web site for further information.

Have your say

You can give them your views in a number of ways. Please visit their web site for all of the different ways you can give your feedback to these proposals, including their standard online questionnaire or the easy read version of the questionnaire.

This consultation closes at 5pm on 30 June 2018.

They are also seeking views about how they currently pay Direct Payments (Direct Payments are also sometimes called Personal Budgets) and how they monitor the ways the money is spent. They would welcome views on this whether or not you use a Direct Payment to employ Personal Assistants or to pay for support from an agency or care provider.

They do not have any definite proposals about this and are not carrying out a formal consultation about the ways they pay and monitor Direct Payments, but would like feedback on how it’s working and if any improvements could be made.

Please visit their web site for further information.

Have your say

You can give them your views in a number of ways. Please visit their web site for all of the different ways you can give your feedback to these proposals, including their standard online questionnaire or the easy read version of the questionnaire.

This engagement closes at 5pm on 30 June 2018.