The personal budget – in particular, the transparent, upfront allocation of resources rather than the cash transfer – embodies a fundamental shift of power from the professional to the individual.
What this means is that the prevailing policy of personal budgets – defined by the upfront allocation to enable a consumerist notion of choice – doesn't actually exist.
The NAO found that mostly the upfront allocation was unhelpful, inaccurate and wasn't even shared with the service user.
28 Substantial upfront allocations of resources to build inter-sectoral links and facilitate research and development were justified via a discourse of investment, payback and economies of scale, but potential conflicts of interest between these stakeholders went largely unexamined.
A freedom of information request to a number of councils suggests that the upfront allocations are wildly different from what people actually get.
In practice, it involves a fair amount of upfront work.
There are quite a lot of upfront costs.
However, that correlation was found for a specific policy and market context that required a large amount of upfront capital.
The delivery time of the hardware components plays an important role in the requirement of upfront planning.
They have a lots of upfront costs.
