Making It Personal: supporting choice and inclusion for disabled children, young people and their families

NAFIS is working with KIDS, and a consortium of partners, to provide advice and information to parents and carers of disabled children and young people, as well as commissioners, around personal budgets.

KIDS, In-Control, and the Office of Public Management will be producing a range of resources including a parent handbook, e-learning and web resources for parents and commissioners of services which will be available at the end of 2012.

NAFIS and RADAR will be disseminating these resources to parents and carers via Family Information Services and other networks. Some of these resources will also be available on this area of the website. Throughout the course of the project we wil be adding case studies of good practice in Family Information Services as well as testimonials from parents and young people who have used personal budgets.

In addition, NAFIS is organising a series of FREE workshops for FIS staff to look at developing inclusive comprehensive FIS to families who have a disabled child or children and to give an overview of personal budgets.

These will be run on:

17 Jan 2012 - Birmingham

27 Jan 2012 - Cambridge

6 March 2012 - Taunton

23 March 2012 - Greater Manchester

To book or for further information, email: kximines@daycaretrust.org.uk

Visit KIDS website for further information on the Making It Personal project.