Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Support
About Kingston Centre for Independent Living (KCIL)
Kingston Centre for Independent Living has worked with Achieving for Children (AfC) & NHS South West London ICB since 2016 to broker Personal Budget services for children and young adults. We currently support over 200 children, young people and families across Kingston and Richmond.Personal Health Budgets
Educational Personal Budgets
Personal Budgets/Direct Payments for social care funded respite and short breaks
We also support adult Direct Payment holders in the Royal Borough of Kingston and the London Borough of Sutton, to recruit and employ Personal Assistants. We are also supporting adults with S117 Aftercare Personal Health Budgets (Mental Health Act)Person-centred and increased collaboration between Education, Health and Social Care
SEND Code of Practice 2015 identifies that there should be a local policy and pathway for personal budgets.
As personal budgets become embedded in practice, KCIL can provide children, young people and their families with a meaningful method of personalisation and choice in their support.
The SEND Review (2020) recommended that the Department of Education ‘informs and guides a wider roll-out of personal budgets’.
