Ms Rachel Cassen:

As everyone has spoken about this morning, it is about looking at what endures and what is worth focusing on over a lifetime. We always come back to three things - inclusive education, open employment and individualised funding - as an enabler of a good life, an ordinary life, putting the person and their support circle or network in the driving seat. Any restrictions around the use of individualised funding obviously have to ensure it is staying within the law and what is reasonable. At the moment, there are so many restrictions on how a personalised budget can be used it is really problematic. It is part of the heavy bureaucracy around the personalised budgets approach. Using it to go to work, let us make it typical, normative and highly valued. Let us get away from this idea that all that disabled people need is care and support. Actually, no - they need a whole lot more. That is fundamental. Let them use it to go to work. Let them use their funding to get a car and put petrol in it. Let us really have a vision around this and make it really transformative and powerful. We can choose to that.