Ms Rita Walsh:

My one message is that I would love to see much work being done on personalised budgets. Quite an amount is already being spent, through school-leavers' funding and so on, on students when they leave secondary school. It is just that students supported by their families cannot have flexibility in how to use that. It is often assigned to a particular day service and, therefore, the power goes from the people. That flexibility would allow people to choose their path and have that money support that pathway and the way it is going. That would be transformative for our students who are leaving school because it can take them where they want to go. At present, they almost have to go where they are told, in many ways. To allow people to buy whatever it is that best fits their chance of having a good life would make a major difference.