Issue - meetings
Individual Budgets Policy for Children with Disabilities
Meeting: 21/07/2011 - Cabinet (Item 64)
64 Individual Budgets Procedure for Children and Young People PDF 81 KB
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Minutes:
A report by the Director of Children’s Services approved a proposed procedure (Appendix 1 of the report) to give families of children or young people with disabilities the option of accessing an Individual Budget to meet their support needs. The Green Paper published on 9 March 2011 stated that by 2014 all families with children with a statement of Special Educational Needs would have the option of a personal budget.
RESOLVED: That
(1) the implementation of an Individual Budget procedure with effect from 1st August 2011, be approved; and
(2) the procedure at (1) above be reviewed in 12 months time.