Personalised budgets, one of a range of planned SEND reforms, will allow families to have more say in decisions about their child’s care by allowing them to receive funds through a direct payment that they can use to buy the services and support they want.
However, concerns have previously been raised that the changes, due to be introduced from September next year, have not been tested enough.
And research carried out by the eight disability charities making up the SEND Consortium show that the majority of families with disabled children remain unaware about personal budgets or don’t know how to use them effectively.
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