Each of the sites tried out Individual Budgets in different ways, with different people and using different funding streams.
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| Gateshead | People with learning disabilities, people with physical disabilities, people with sensory impairments and people who use mental health services at times of transition from childrens services to adult services, and from adult services to older peoples services |
| Coventry | People with learning disabilities, people with physical disabilities, people with sensory impairments and people who use mental health services. They will all be people who are going through big changes in their lives - eg growing up, moving from education to employment, leaving a family or other 'supervised' home to live more independently, moving from hospital or rehab to living in the community or at home, and people who are coming home from living in an 'out of city' placement. |
| West Sussex | Older people |
| Manchester | Older people - people with neurological illness, renal patients |
| Oldham | All adults including older adults |
| Barnsley | All adults including older adults and young people in transition. |
| Lincolnshire | Starting with older people, but later to include all adults. |
| Barking and Dagenham | Older people, people with learning disabilities and people with physical disabilities, and people who use mental health services |
| Kensington and Chelsea | Older people and people with physical disabilities |
| Leicester | People with learning disabilities, people with physical disabilities and people with sensory impairments. May include other people later in the pilot. |
| Bath and North East Somerset | People with a learning difficulty, older people and younger people with a physical or sensory impairment
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| Essex | People with learning disabilities, people with physical disabilities, family carers |
| Norfolk | People with mental health problems |
13 sites were chosen to take part in the pilot. The sites were: