Lorica Learning Disabilities, a charity based in Pulborough, Sussex, has been chosen by the Department of Health (DoH) as one of 25 "pathfinders" to receive a share of a 1.1m fund to pilot a social enterprise model of working in health and social care.
Lorica Learning Disabilities will set up a "community interest company" that will offer young people with profound disabilities the chance to use their individualised budgets to purchase the services of specialist support staff. Individualised budgets for disabled young people were introduced in a government report, Improving the life chances of disabled people, in 2005, and are being piloted in 13 areas.
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