Research and Evaluation

This page has a list of reports that are about research and evaluation of the personalisation of social care.

• Your support your way
  The London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames has published an evaluation of the results so far for people who have taken up self-directed support. This used In Control's evaluation framework to identify...
• Changing lives together: using person-centred outcomes to measure results in social care
  This paper looks at how councils can work together with citizens to develop new ways to measure success in social services at a local level. It shares the learning from several initiatives that aim to...
• The Individual Budgets Pilot Projects - Impact and Outcomes for Carers
  Individual budgets can greatly improve carers' quality of life when compared with carers of people using conventional social services, new independent research has shown. They can allow carers more...
• Individual Budgets Evaluation Report
  This report is the evaluation of the Individual Budgets pilot scheme conducted over two years, 2006-2007. It involved a survey of 959 people including disabled groups, older people and young people in...
• The personalisation of adult social care in rural areas
  The aim of this report, which was produced for the Commission for Rural Communities by Jill Manthorpe and Martin Stephens at King's College, is to inform debate about the transformation of social care...