Does your CCG need some practical help and advice to support the further roll-out of personal health budgets? The Government’s Mandate expects 50,000 -100,000 personal health budgets (PHBs) by 2020/21, as well as CCG responsibilities regarding the legal right to have a personal health budget for people who are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare and continuing care for children. The Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View published in March 2017 further promotes supporting…
The Guardian Article Campaigners say growing use of prepaid cards for people to spend on support at home is removing their independence For the past 10 years, Edwina McCarthy, 63, has lived contentedly in her own home in south London with the support of personal assistants she employs through a personal budget for needs arising from cerebral palsy. In many ways, she is an advertisement for the merits of the personalisation of care…
Lynne Elwell has put her heart and soul into the disability rights and inclusion movements. She has collated a realm of good information and inspiration along the way and we have had the honour and pleasure to record these and create a handbook which can gifted it to people and parents all over the world. As you would expect it is a brilliant valuable resource, a comprehensive dossier of quotes, tools, advice and stories….
More than 200 people from all walks of life gathered yesterday (30th April 2014) at Making the Future Together in Manchester. The event, hosted by In Control, was an opportunity for people from all areas of the health, social care and education sectors, as well as provider organisations, community groups, and ‘experts by experience’ to share ideas, plan action and build alliances for a future of inclusion and independent living. The…
In Control trustee Clenton Farquharson and Miro Griffiths, member of our Children’s Programme team have both been awarded MBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Clenton, who has been a trustee of In Control since April 2013, was awarded his MBE for services to disabled people and the community in the West Midlands. As well as being a trustee of In Control, Clenton is also co-chair of Think Local Act Personal’s Making it Real sub…
We have published two new papers on integration: ‘Resilience, identity and contribution’ and ‘Creating an integrated, outcome-focused, family-centred offer’. Nic Crosby, who leads our Children’s programme, has written this blog post on what true integration actually means and why it must start with the person at the centre: Integration is heralded by many as the answer to limited and ever decreasing budgets as well as inefficient and duplicating systems but how many see it…
Dyslexia Action has launched a new guide for parents to help them understand the changes to SEN provision. The free online guide will help parents and carers, who support children with literacy difficulties including dyslexia, navigate the changes in special educational needs (SEN) which come into effect in September. ‘How to…Navigate the changes in Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provision’ highlights the new legal requirements that schools and colleges have a duty…
NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens has set out plans for a new Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) programme in a major speech at the annual conference of the Local Government Association. The proposals will offer local councils across England a radical new option in which individuals could control their combined health and social care support. Speaking at the LGA conference in Bournemouth, Stevens set out plans for the new IPC programme, which…
