John Waters, In Control’s lead for research and evaluation and co-author of POET, responded to recent criticism of personal budgets in the Guardian.

'Personal budgets are a simple but powerful innovation that over the past decade have quietly revolutionised the way the social care system in England is organised. According to Disability Rights UK, a national organisation of disabled people, they are “the route to achieving independent living based on the social model of disability”.'

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