CYP Now - Disability: I'll tell you what I want

The Government is proposing to give disabled young people their own individual budgets to spend on services that affect them. Tom de Castella asks four teenagers with different disabilities what they think of the idea and how they would spend the money.

A main plank of the report was the expansion of direct payments to disabled people through "individual budgets". So, instead of receiving preordained services from the State, an individual will be able to opt to have the money given to them so they can decide which services to buy in.

Thirteen sites across England will receive a share of 2.6m to set up pilots to test individual budgets. Another part of the plan pays attention to the "transition to adulthood" to ensure that disabled young people do not miss out on services while being caught between youth and adulthood. All this is to be supported by a new Office for Disability Issues to co-ordinate the Government's approach.

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