Personal Budgets:

• Give people a clear, up-front idea about how much money there is for their support.
• Make assessment quicker and easier - this means people have to give out information fewer times.
• Bring together different kinds of support or funding from more than one agency.
• Let people use the money in a way that best suits their own needs and situation.
• Have support to plan what they want and to organise it, from a broker or advocate, family or friends, as the individual wants.
• Don't cost the Local Authority any more.
• Put people in the centre of the planning process, and recognise they are the person best placed to understand their own needs and how to meet them.