Within This Issue

Individual Budgets can improve people’s quality of life by giving them flexibility and control over their services and therefore their lives. This is evident in some of the articles in this issue. The contributors discuss the growing empowerment of people with learning disabilities and their families who are increasingly taking control of their services and in doing so improving the lives of all concerned. For people with PMLD Individual Budgets are often about families in control and whilst no-one writes that this is easy, contributors seem to agree that it is worthwhile. When families are in control, services can be more responsive, can offer continuity and ensure that the individual person with PMLD remains the focus of change rather than changes being driven by organisations and service providers. The final article is about a service for children with PMLD in India and whilst it is not specifically about ‘Money Matters’ it is about the importance of the resources of knowledge and time. Whilst money is inevitably needed, access to people with knowledge is always valuable to such projects.

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