Demos

Theme : personal

Individual taste Simon Duffy, chief executive of In Control, a social enterprise leading the implementation of personal budgets, says: "If there is a thorough and proper system in place to ensure the right person has control of the budget, there is no logical or rational basis for restricting how people should use it that reduces the efficiency of the budget." Charles Leadbeater, co-author of a report on personal budgets by the thinktank Demos agrees: "If it were to restrict choice to a menu of what is already on offer from the authority then it would not be a full implementation of the idea. As long as it is legal, and contributes to meeting the goals of the person's support plan, people should be able to spend the money on whatever they choose." from : charlieedwards 2nd July 2008