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Personalisation Survey
Prepared by:Gurur Sarbanoglu, Reed Business Insight
On behalf of:UnisonThe College of Social Work
Reference: 5550June 2012
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Contents
Background & Objectives 3
Sample & Methodology 4
Executive Summary 5
Respondent Profile 8
Main Findings
Knowledge of Personalisation 12
Implementation of Personalisation and Personal Budgets 15
Personalisation and Job Roles 23
Impact of Personalisation 27
Key Findings 33
Appendix: other findings 35
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Background & Obj ect ives
Unison and The College of Social Work were looking to provide value for their
members by conducting research among social care professionals in England
about the impact of personalisation in association with Community Care.
More specifically, research was required to:
Evaluate the level of progress in the implementation of personalisation
Gauge attitudes towards personalisation among professionals, including on how it hasaffected working practices and job roles
Determine how successful social care professionals feel personalisation has been for theservice user
Establish trends or changes compared to similar research conducted on behalf of Unison in2011
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Sample & Methodology
Research took the form of an online self-completionquestionnaire sent to our database of social care
professionals.
An email invitation was sent to around 6,700 peoplecontaining a link to the survey.
A 1,000 prize draw was used as a financialincentive to complete the survey.
Field work took place between 9 and 18 May 2012.
272 eligibleresponses to the survey were received.All respondents were employed by local authoritiesin England and three-quarters were registered social
workers.
Note:Results shown are based on those answering each question
Screenshot of email
Screenshot of survey
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Execut ive Sum mary
Respondents overall seem more positive about personalisation this year than in 2011,
in terms of the impact that it has had on their jobs and the likely impact on service users.Half believe that personal budgets will be beneficial for service users in the medium to
long term.
However, as last year, most say bureaucracy and budget cuts are undermining the
impact of personalisation, and, if anything, these problems are getting worse. Two-thirds
say that the paperwork for assessments is too complicated for service users to completethemselves.
There is still a significant skills and knowledge gap between what professionals
perceive they need to deal with personalisation and what they possess.
Just a quarter believe that all service users will be on personal budgets by April 2013,
as the government intends.
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Q. In your opinion, is the paperwork relating to assessments suitable for service users to complete themselves?
Base: all answering
Q. How far do you agree with the statement: Personalisation has resulted in more bureaucracy for me in my role?
I ncreasing impact of bureaucracy
Base: all answering
A greater proportion of respondents sayassessment paperwork is too complicated forservice users to complete than in 2011.
Respondents are more likely to say thatpersonalisation has resulted in more bureaucracyin their role than in 2011.
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Q. In the medium to long term do you think that personal budgets will be of benefit to people in your locality?
More opt im ism about service user benef it
Base: all answering
Half of respondents believe personal budgets will
benefit service users over time, up from 41% lastyear.
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Respondent Prof ile
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Respondent Prof ile
Job Status (mentions of 6%+)
Social worker (or equiv.) 43% Senior social worker 14% Other manager 10% Senior practitioner 10% Dept head home/centre/unit 6%
Other: 7%
Other responses included: Commissioner,Project Manager, Review Officer etc.
Client Groups
Bases: all answering (Job status - 268, Client Groups - 272)
76% are registered social workers (base: 196)
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Main aspect s of role
Q. What are the main aspects of your role?
Base: all answering (238)
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Greater London18%
South East18%
South West7%
East Anglia7%
Midlands20%
Yorkshire &Humberside
14%
North East4%
North West13%
Base: all answering (196)
Region
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Know ledge of Personalisat ion
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Understanding personalisat ion t erm sRespondents feel most informed about direct payments, followed by managed personal budgets.Individual service funds is the least well-understood term, as last year.
Base
(239)
(239)
(236)
(238)
Q. How well do you understand the following terms in relation to personalisation?
(79%) (14%) (5%)
(20%) (29%) (24%) (27%)
Figures from 2011 in brackets.
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Ski lls or know ledge required for personalisat ionThere are some skills and knowledge gaps when the perception of what is needed for personalisation iscompared to the actual abilities of the sample, but the gap is small (3%) for skills in helping service usersunderstand and manage risk. The largest gap is in brokerage skills (a trend that continues from last year), thoughmore than one-third of respondents do not believe they need these skills.
Q. Which of the following skills or knowledge do you believe you need to deal with personalisation? /Which of the following skills or knowledge do you feel you have?
Base: all answering (234 / 215)
(64%)
(33%)
Figures from 2011 in brackets.
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I mplementat ion of Personalisat ion and PersonalBudgets
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Progress tow ards personalisat ionThe belief that personal budgets will be in place for all eligible service users by April 2013, as thegovernment intends, is lower than last years figure (26% vs. 37% who believed personal budgets would beavailable to all by 2013). Service users are perceived as being less involved in making personalisationhappen this year than last.
Q. Do you believe that all service users in your areawill be on personal budgets by April 2013?
Q. How involved would you say the service users and theirfamilies have been in making personalisation happen?
Dontknow22%
Base: all answering (218) Base: all answering (216)
(13%)
(35%)
(36%)
(4%)
(12%)
Figures from 2011 in brackets.
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Personal budgets as beneficial
There is some uncertainty over whether personalbudgets will benefit users, but half believe that
they will over the medium to long term, up from41% in 2011.
Q. In the medium to long term do you think that personal budgets will be of benefit to people in your locality?
Base: all answering (216)
The most prevalent method of receiving personalbudgets is via local authority managed budgets.
However, more than a third (35%) say there has
been a policy change to make direct payments thedefault option. (please see appendix)
Q. In your area, is the most prevalent method of receiving personal budgets direct payments or local authority managed budgets?
Base: all answering (216)
Dontknow,23%
Receiving personal budgets
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Access to personal budgetsRespondents are split on whether councils are doing enough to help groups whose take-up of personalbudgets has traditionally been low to access them. For instance, while 44% think their councils aredoing enough to support older people, 37% disagreed.
Base
(210)
(208)
(207)
(208)
Q. In your opinion, is your council doing enough to support the following groups to access personal budgets?
(208)
(207)
(205)
(42%) (33%) (25%)
(29%) (37%) (34%)
(22%) (32%) (46%)
(6%) (30%) (63%)
Figures from 2011 in brackets.
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View s on progress of personalisat ionRespondents were asked about how far they agreed with a set of statements to gauge their views on the levelof progress with personalisation.
This year, 86% agreed that cuts to budgets will impede progress with personalisation,
up from 83% in 2011.
There was a rise from 73% to 82% in the proportion who agreed that personalisation
had led to more bureaucracy in their role.
There was a bigger jump in the proportion who agreed services such as day centres
were closing down under the impact of personal budgets (57% to 69%).
A greater proportion of respondents this year disagreed that money was allocated to
people effectively in line with their needs compared with last year (62% up from 47%).
Most respondents also disagreed that resource allocation systems were easy for users
and carers or professionals to understand.
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Q. Please rate the extent to which you agree or disagree with each of the following statements
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View s on progress w it h personalisat ionAggregateagreement
86%
82%
76%
69%
61%
54%
46%
46%
33%
28%
23%
16%
Base: all answering (various)
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Review ing personal budgets
Q. How often are the needs of people on personal budgets generally reviewed in your area?
Base: all answering (198)
In your area how are the majority of reviews carried out?
Face-to-face 76%
By direct telephone 12%
By call centre 1%
Other 11%
Base: all answering (198)
Nearly three quarters said personal budgets werereviewed at least annually.
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I mpact s of reviews t o personal budgets
Q. What has happened to the value of personal budgets for most clients in your area following reviews / re-assessments inthe past 12 months?
Base: all answering (194)
More respondents said reviews had led to a decrease in the value of personal budgets than said theyhad increased, but the biggest group of respondents didnt know about the impact of reviews (38%).
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Personalisat ion and Job Roles
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Initial assessment
Face-to-face is the most common method with
which initial assessments are carried out.However, this method is used less now comparedto last year, while telephone and call centreassessments have increased.
Who carries out initial assessments
38% of respondents say social workers carry outinitial assessments, down from last year.
Q. And who usually carries out these initial assessments?
Q. In your area, how are the majority of initial assessments carried out?
Base: all respondents (229)
Base: all answering (224)
(64%)
(18%)
(12%)
(6%)
(17%)
(46%)
(4%)
(11%)
Figures from 2011 in brackets.
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Who leads t he suppor t planning process
Q. Is the support planning process in your area mainly led by:
Base: all answering (215)
For two-thirds of respondents, support planning is mainly led by council-employed social workers or caremanagers, while just 3% said it was mainly led by service users and their families.
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I mpact of Personalisat ion
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I mpact of personalisat ion on j ob
Evaluation of impact
A high proportion of respondents report at least some impact on their job from personalisation. Of these,40% (up from 36% in 2011) say the impact was positive, while 30% say it was negative, down from 35% in2011. One-third of respondents say personalisation has resulted in decreased status for social workers,though half say status has remained the same.
Impact on current job
Q. How much impact do you think personalisation hashad on your job?
Base: all answering (251)
Q. How much impact do you think personalisation hashad on your job?
Base: all answering (221)
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I mpact of personalisation on t he st at us of socialworkers
Q. How has personalisation affected the status of social workers in your area?
Base: all answering (242)
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How roles have changed(negat ive responses)
Q. How have your roles and duties changed in the past two years under the impact of personalisation?
Increasing focus and attention to process and procedure creating the impression of working on aproduction line. This has left very little space for case working or imaginative / creative working.
Expected to do more, tick box type forms - less personal in myopinion, cannot make decisions due to budgetary constraints.
The volume of paperwork has increased. The assessment processis now much longer.
Much more paperwork to be completed even to
implement a small care package. Very time consumingand clients do not understand why they have to gothrough such a process.
Many report increased paperwork and bureaucracy, which is caused by more complex and longerassessment processes. This, in turn, has led to social workers feeling deskilled and made workloads less
manageable.
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How roles have changed(negat ive responses)
Q. How have your roles and duties changed in the past two years under the impact of personalisation?
Massively more time spent in front of computer, so less time working with service users. Feelings ofdisempowerment and of becoming deskilled due to the complexity of and constant changes to thecomputer system.
As a social worker, I feel that I regularly perform moreadministration tasks than actually having face to face contact with
service users and families.
Complicated systems and increased paperwork anddepersonalised relationships with clients.
Work has become harder as the budgets given do not
cover the costs of care, this leads to angry clients andcarers and the social worker get the blame.
Some respondents report spending less time with clients as a result of increased bureaucracy, whileothers say that this and financial pressures have made relationships with clients more difficult.
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How roles have changed(positive responses)
Q. How have your roles and duties changed in the past two years under the impact of personalisation?
Role has expanded, so we are not just completing reviews but doing more through casemanagement work to ensure that we can provide the best possible care packages for service users.
Increased the flexibility and responsiveness of how financialresources are used to achieve outcomes. This has enhanced lifefor people receiving an individual budget and has acted to drive upstandards of response from independent sector providers.
Some respondents feel personalisation has led to support being tailored to peoples individual needs.
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Key Findings
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Key FindingsKnowledge
Direct payments and managed personal budgets are the two concepts that respondents are most informed about.
On the other end of the spectrum, individual service funds is the least understood concept, which was also the case
last year. The skills and knowledge gap between what is perceived as needed and what is possessed by respondents
remains high, with the exception of skills needed to help users understand and manage risks.
Implementation
The full implementation of personal budgets for all service users by April 2013 is not deemed realistic by more than
half of respondents. Among the factors impeding the full implementation of personalisation appear to be cuts made to
adult care budgets and increased bureaucracy.
Social workers
Initial assessments are mostly carried out face-to-face, and the group that carries them out more often than others is
social workers. However, most are not able to sign off personal budgets up to a certain level. They also feel burdened
by paperwork.
Impact
Personalisation has had a major impact on respondents, with over a third claiming it to be a positive one, an increaseon last year. Yet, half of respondents do not feel personalisation has changed the status of social workers, while one-
third feel status has declined.
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Appendix : other findings
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Policy change to make direct payments default opt ion
Q. Has there been a policy change to make direct payments the default option over local authority managed budgets?
Base: all answering (211)
(34%)
(32%)
(34%)
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Personal budgets for people w it h degenerat iveconditions
Q. Are personal budgets for people with degenerative conditions or increasing dependency uprated in line with their increasingneeds in your area?
Base: all answering (199)
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Whether personal budget s are uprated
Base: all answering (197)
Q. Are personal budgets in your area uprated each year in line with rises in the cost of living?
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