Are cuts preventing personalisation?

Community Care (www.communitycare.co.uk) surveyed a range of social care practitioners who work in adult social care and who are mostly employed by Councils, about the impact of the Government cuts on the development of personalisation. 80% of those questioned said they believe the cuts are preventing personalisation from taking place within the industry.

It seems that the main problem is that the cuts have led to a reduction of resources in a bid to save money; in particular, staff. This means that remaining staff are stretched and are no longer able to give service users the time and attention they would like to.

Physical resources are also being cut which only adds to the problems. Andrew Tyson of In Control said: “Personalisation is about choice. We know a lot of people are still choosing day centres and, if day centres aren’t there, people won’t have choice.”

So could it be, as originally suggested by some, that personalisation is just a cover for the Government to save money? Is it really an excuse to cut services that would otherwise be needed?

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