Care Act: Personal budgets and direct payments training course

Course content

Content includes:

• defining personal budgets, direct payments, local authority commissioned services and individual service funds
• legal duties around personal budgets, direct payments and individual service funds
• personal budgets, direct payments and individual service plans in relation to assessment and support planning and review
• elements, principles and exclusions of the personal budget and how it is calculated
• how the personal budget is used for both adults and carers
• direct payments for adults with capacity and without capacity
• ways of administering and reviewing direct payments.

Learning outcomes

This useful course will give attendees a wider understanding of the concepts of personal budgets, direct payments and independent service funds. Course attendees will:

• understand the Care Act requirements for personal budgets and direct payments, as well as individual service funds
• gain insight into local authority duties on information and advice, assessment and support planning, plus reviews related to the topic
• practice and reflect on the application of the principles and duties around personal budgets and direct payments for adults and carers.

Who should attend?

Social care and health staff working in local authorities, organisations providing care and support, voluntary organisations, housing and children’s services This includes social workers, social work team leaders frontline care staff, managers, occupational therapists, nurses, clinical staff, housing officers, carers.

Duration

The length of the training is one full day, however SCIE trainers can deliver it over two half-days to suit your organisation’s needs

CPD accreditation

CPD Standards Office accredited course ref no 60036/13.