Information and advice

Better information and advice can help people find ways to meet their support needs and reduce reliance on formal services.

• Information and advice for people who fund their own social care
  This document, published in 2009, is the final report of a research project looking at the provision of information and advice for people who fund their own social care.
• At a glance 12: Personalisation briefing: implications for advocacy workers
  A briefing summarising the implications of the personalisation agenda for advocacy workers. This At a glance briefing examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for advocacy workers. Key...
• Access to information advice and advocacy
  This review, published in March 2009, looked at what information, advice and advocacy specific groups of people need. It also looked at what is available at the moment and highlighted examples of good...
• Information and advice strategies
  Local Government Improvement and Development (formerly IDeA) has looked at how councils can improve information and advice for the public about social care. Framework for information, advice and advocacy...
• A brief introduction to Self Directed Support: your personal budget for social care
  Essex County Council has produced a new guide which explains self-directed support, with stories of how disabled and older people have been using personal budgets.