Projects started in 2006

Integrated services for people with long-term neurological conditions: an evaluation of the National Service FrameworkMay 2006 – September 2010

This project identified what helps or hinders integrated services and designed a benchmarking system, based on these factors. The key question was how different people with long-term neurological conditions (LTNCs), men/women; older people/younger people; people from minority ethnic communities, etc., and people with different types of LTNCs experienced integration.

Choice and change: extending choice and control over the lifecourseMay 2006 - December 2010

The Panel Study formed the core of SPRU’s Department of Health Research Programme from 2006-11. It examined the realities of choice in the context of changing circumstances, whether these changes arose from changes in illness or disability or from other social transitions.

The IBSEN project - National evaluation of the Individual Budgets pilot projectsApril 2006 - March 2008

Individual budgets sit at the heart of government policy for improving choice and control for people needing social care support. Individual budgets bring together a number of different funding streams and offer a transparent way of allocating resources to individuals. There are 13 pilot areas for individual budgets. Evaluating these pilot projects is fundamental to a future decision by government about whether this approach will be rolled out more widely.

Review of the research evidence surrounding risk perceptions, risk management strategies and their consequences in adult social care for different groups of service usersApril 2006 – September 2006

The aim of this scoping study was to identify and review recent research evidence on perceptions of risk and risk-related practice in the field of adult social care.

Access to information about social care – response to recommendation from the Better Regulation Task ForceJanuary 2006 - July 2006

SPRU was commissioned to undertake a scoping review of available evidence about accessibility and availability of information for service users and carers across the spectrum of adult social care.

Access to information about social care – response to recommendation from the Better Regulation Task ForceJanuary 2006 - July 2006

SPRU was commissioned to undertake a scoping review of available evidence about accessibility and availability of information for service users and carers across the spectrum of adult social care.