Amid a deluge of cuts contained in the spending review last month, Chancellor George Osborne announced plans to expand the use of personal budgets for children with special education needs, disabilities and long-term health conditions.
Although details of the scheme will not be announced until the SEN green paper is published later this year, the initiative is intended to give parents and children more flexibility and choice over the services they use.
But professionals are already warning that the personalisation agenda could be exploited as a cover for cuts and, while personal budgets have been used in adult services for some time, the effectiveness of such an approach for children and families is yet to be proven.
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