Children and families taking control: Introducing Individual Budgets and Self-directed Support for children, young people and their families
Nic Crosby
This article introduces the work of In Control which over the past two years has been supporting a growing number of children's services in exploring Individual Budgets and Self-directed Support and in thinking about how these approaches make sense for children. By 2015 every adult in receipt of social care funding will have an Individual Budget. In Control advocates this approach be extended to all as a way of ensuring both adults and children have control over how they are supported to be full and active citizens...
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