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=== What is a wiki? ===
=== What is a wiki? ===
This website is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki|"wiki"]] - exactly the same as [[wikipedia:Main_Page|Wikipedia]]. In fact, we use the same software as Wikipedia.
This website is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki "wiki"] - exactly the same as [[wikipedia:Main_Page|Wikipedia]]. In fact, we use the same software as Wikipedia.

Revision as of 14:41, 5 July 2021

Welcome and what is this?

Welcome to managing your care budget.

We are freely sharing our lived experience of running our care budgets by offering a wide range of templates available for download. The templates and other resources will be of use to anyone that employs Personal Assistants (PAs) or carers. They will act as a toolkit to support you.

We are not saying that they are complex documents, it's far more than you need so many of them so quickly, and why should every single person have to write their own?

Who are we?

We are a community of people who run a care budget either for ourselves, for our children, or a close relative. We are centred in England and running Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), but most of this website is applicable to anyone managing staff in their home.

It is not a closed community. Quite the opposite, anyone in the world can offer their documents for this website.

How did this start?

We saw the need for this website early on in a research project that was being run by the Open Lab at Newcastle University, funded by the EPSRC. Pulling all the documents together and creating this website took a lot of time, but that was mainly done as part of the research.

Who pays for it?

Up until the end of 2022, the research budget will pay for the cost of the IT (servers, emails, domain name). After that, a new funding source has been secured.

What takes time though is running the website. Making sure it is up to date, keeping the spammers at bay, collecting new material. The new funding source will keep the website ticking over, but we will likely need volunteers to move it forward after 2022. That may not be a problem - it is exactly how Wikipedia is run!

What is a wiki?

This website is a "wiki" - exactly the same as Wikipedia. In fact, we use the same software as Wikipedia.