How does the funding for people attending care farms work? Who pays?
In the vast majority of cases the care farms will have a relationship with a commissioning organisation such as social services, a college or school, the local education authority, police and/or probation or a primary care trust/mental health organisation etc. The farm will have developed this relationship themselves over the course of time, but it is not always easy and can be very dependent on finding someone within a potential commissioning organisation who has the vision to work with the farm in developing a service. It is unusual to have any kind of long term “contract” with these organisations which can lead to issues for the farmer if the commissioning organisation decides that they no longer wish to use the services of the farm at very short notice. Increasingly personalised budgets will become available for the budget holder (or their carer) to make decisions on what services to spend the funds on. If you would like to find out more about personalised budgets take a look at In
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