What is Self Directed Support?

Self-Directed Support is a new system of social care. It's about people being in control of the support they need to live their life as they choose.

Self-directed support is the name given to a way of redesigning the social care system so that people who get services can take much greater control over them. Direct payments and the Individual Budgets process give people who use social care the opportunity to control the resources allocated to their support.