March 2011 Newsletter

The Government has this week published a Green Paper outlining its plans for children with special educational needs (SEN) and a disability.

A young campaigner for self-directed support has become the first person with cerebral palsy to be awarded a prestigious Winston Churchill fellowship.

Less than four weeks to go until this year's 'Watch out - It's the LAW' event in Manchester. The event, which covers the legal issues surrounding personalisation, is selling out fast so would-be delegates need to make sure of their place by boo...

A new handbook, edited by Andrew Tyson, policy lead at In Control, has been published and copies are selling fast.

This summer we will be launching a new mediation service to help organisations and individuals resolve commercial, family and human resource disputes.

As you may know, we've been rolling out a new interface for the In Control website this year, making the site 'mobile friendly' and introducing a number of new and exciting features.

This year In Control has collaborated with the Think Local, Act Personal Consortium and Lancaster University to create the first ever National Personal Budget Survey, also known as the Personal Outcomes Evaluation Tool (POET).

People from six London boroughs describe how their lives have improved since having a personal budget.

The latest results of a pilot scheme, initiated by In Control, which offered personalised budgets to rough sleepers have shown it to be a remarkable success.

We are inviting our readers to take part in a readership survey to feed their views and opinions into the next issue of In Control NOW!

A new strategy paper which aims to transform the mental health and wellbeing of the nation and achieve parity between physical and mental health, has been published by the coalition government.