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Welcome

We can help if ...

  • you use, or are thinking of using, a personal budget or direct payments to manage your own social care support in Leeds.
  • you'd like help or advice from people already using personal budgets or direct payments.

Where to start

Got questions? Why not post on our discussion board and we'll get back to you as soon as we can! Or take a look at some short film clips where people talk about how managing their own support is helping them to live more independently.

All members of Free to Live are personal budget or direct payments users. We have set up this site to help other people in Leeds who want to manage their own care effectively. Our informal advice and support is free, impartial and confidential.

Read more about us.

Latest News

Welfare Reform, will it benefit everyone?

Happy new year everyone!

The government has recently suffered heavy defeats in the House of Lords regarding several of their plans for shaking up the welfare system. Fundamentally, we as a group are relieved, as are many in our position.

We are more than willing to accept that something needs to be done; in the interests of fairness cuts need to be across the board rather than in one specific area. Read More...