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This discussion paper will explore in detail why SDS is the best option for providing a person-centred, long-term human rights approach to social care.
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The aim of this follow-up audit was to establish whether councils, integration authorities and the Scottish Government are making sufficient progress in implementing SDS to achieve the aims of the ten-year SDS strategy.
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In this paper we will argue:
Firstly, that in any system of social care (and not simply in any system of self-directed support) it is sensible, and indeed inevitable, that a method of resource allocation is used.
Secondly, that if the disabled person is truly to direct their own support in any meaningful sense, then it is necessary and uniquely empowering, to be informed ‘up-front’ of the size of the individual budget to which he/she is entitled , so that this knowledge can be part of what is used to inform the range of choices that need to be made.
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This toolkit has been developed by in Control Scotland in collaboration with its partners in the Erasmus+ SKILLS Project. It is designed to provide frontline workers in education, health and social work, social care and community development with the basic information they require to make self-directed support a reality for the people they work for.
