Fleming, Padraic and McGilloway, Sinead and Thomas, Steve (2021) Individualised Funding: A Realist Analysis to Identify the Causal Factors That Facilitate Positive Outcomes. Disabilities, 1 (1). pp. 47-57. ISSN 2673-7272

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: There is growing interest, internationally, in empowering people with disabilities, and the United Nations have identified individualised funding as one way in which empowerment might be achieved. ‘Individualised funding’ is an umbrella term for various publicly funded support structures that provide personalised and individualised support services for people with a disability. These aim to facilitate self-direction, empowerment, independence, and self-determination. The findings of a recent mixed-methods systematic review of studies undertaken during an approximate 25-year period suggest positive effects with respect to quality of life, client satisfaction, and safety, as well as very few adverse effects, although the evidence on cost-effectiveness was inconclusive. This paper involved a re-examination of the qualitative findings of that review by employing a realist framework to explore the interplay between key contexts and mechanisms, and how these facilitate or inhibit positive outcomes associated with individualised funding and its underlying programme theory

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Fleming, P.; McGilloway, S.; Thomas, S. Individualised Funding: A Realist Analysis to Identify the Causal Factors That Facilitate Positive Outcomes. Disabilities 2021, 1, 47–57. https://doi.org/10.3390/ disabilities1010004
Keywords:	individualised funding; personal budgets; self-determination; empowerment; disability; realist; CMOC; implementation
Academic Unit:	Assisting Living & Learning,ALL institute Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI
Item ID:	17209
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.3390/disabilities1010004
Depositing User:	Dr. Sinéad McGilloway
Date Deposited:	18 May 2023 13:12
Journal or Publication Title:	Disabilities
Publisher:	MDPI
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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