Personalisation - Self-Directed Support

Herefordshire Council's Adult Social Care Directorate is committed to developing self-directed support for all people that use adult social care services.

Herefordshire Learning Disability Services has been one of a number of 'in Control' pilots across the country. Herefordshire's pilot sought to offer better outcomes for people with learning disabilities through the use of self-directed support and individual budgets, this is referred to as 'Personalisation'. So far, 26 people with learning disabilities have been given an individual budget, many of whom have used these to pay for flexible and innovative services.

Herefordshire adult social care services is to extend these ideas to apply to all adults, including older people, younger people with disabilities, younger people with mental health problems and carers. Our target is to offer and have at least 100 service users with individual budgets by May 2009.

Put simply, self-directed support aims to put people in control of the support they need. Through this we aim to offer better outcomes for people who use services.

These pages include information about how self-directed support is being implemented for social care for all adults. Click on the links on the left to find out more.