PB meeting 6th May - your chance to have your say about PB services

For our next meeting, on the 6th May, we will be joined by members of the Personalisation team at the Council.

There will only be one item on the agenda - The PB group has already started thinking of some "headlines" that we want to bring up - we need your ideas too!

In yesterday's meeting we asked-
1. What is the problem
2. Why is it a problem

So far we have had ideas such as:

• Lack of clear information - problem because you don't know all the possibilities of how to use PBs / you might use the PB in the wrong way and then have to pay the money back / lose your PB
• No continuity - problem because you can't build up a relationship with the Social worker, you have to repeat the same things over and over again
• No transparancy of how money is allocated - problem because some of the needs that have been brought up in the assessment don't seem to have any money allocated
• No PB increase - problem because people are not going to be able to afford the care they are currently getting - choice and control is lost.

The first hour of the meeting will be dedicated to coming up with more issues people want to bring up - if you can't come to the meeting - please feel free to email/ call us with your suggestions - the more people that can have a say the better!