Hello all,
I'm currently completing a piece of research into aspects of Personalisation, and have been struck by a number of disabled participants mentioning that they have felt 'grasping', or feel that they sound grasping, when trying to outline what it is that they want to be supported to do by their personal budget/direct payment.
This obviously has an impact on the support planning process and choice and control, particularly if they are not being enabled to do this by a support planner with lived experience or good access to examples from other support plans.
I wondered whether other researchers had come across this in their work recently, and what others thought about the impact of the current climate of labelling disabled people as 'scroungers' etc and its potential to increase this reluctance of disabled or elderly people to ask for something for themselves?
I'd welcome thoughts and references if anyone has them.
Many thanks,
Sue
Sue Porter
Research Fellow
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol.
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