What Makes Self Directed Support Different

Self Directed Support is very different from the way support is currently provided to people.

At the moment it is the local authority who knows how much money the support costs with people generally being in the dark about this.

What makes self directed support so fundamentally different is the fact that people themselves know how much money they have at the outset to meet their needs in line with their support plan and they can decide how best to spend the money so long as they use it to meet their needs.

This allows people themselves to be in control of designing their support instead of the local authority deciding on their behalf.