Right to Control

[ILSJo 10]

So what is the "Right to Control"? This is a Government iniative that gives choice and flexibility over how you recieve your social care support from the local authority. It gives disabled people, who access many funding streams, more control by incorporating them into one pot.

 

Funding included in the Right to Control includes, your social care budget, Jobcentre plus disability employment help, funding for adaptations to your home, funding to maintain a tenancy and funding from the Independent Living Fund.

 

Right to Control will streamline the assessment process for all these different types of funding into one assessment and one pot of money. The implications of this new iniative will be significant for disabled people who receive funding and support from these different sources.

 

Sheffield has successfully been selected as a trail-blazer site for the Right to Control and all new applications to any of the fundings streams from 1st December will access them via the Right to Control approach.

 

Sheffield CIL and Sheffield City Council will be hosting a workshop on Thursday 10th June from 10.30 am - 1.00 pm at The Circle, Rockingham Lane Sheffield.

 

We invite all disabled citizens in Sheffield to attend this event to help shape the service and map how existing application processes work and how they can be stream-lined. If you are interested in attending please contact [email protected]

 

Places will be limited and restricted to disabled people, so please let Joanne know if you would like to attend.

[fallen angel 10]

quote Places will be limited and restricted to disabled people, so please let Joanne know if you would like to attend

 

should this also not be open for parents/carers of the disabled ???