Right to Control

The Right to Control will be a major step toward achieving disability equality by 2025.

Consultation on the Right to Control

Government response

On 8 December 2009, the government responded to the consultation on the Right to Control.

Government response to the consultation on the Right to Control (standard) (PDF, 75 pages, 2.19 MB)
Government response to the consultation on the Right to Control (Easy Read) (PDF, 69 pages, 1.8 MB)

ODI has published information for local authorities on how to become a Trailblazer on the Right to Control information for local authorities page.

The consultation

The Right to Control consultation closed on 30 September 2009. The full transcript of responses to the consultation questions are available for download below.

Consultation responses from organisations (PDF, 579 pages, 2.7 MB)
Consultation responses from individuals (PDF, 85 pages, 327 KB)
Short questionnnaire responses ('Have your say on Right to Control') (PDF, 35 pages, 163 KB)

The following responses were submitted as reports or in letter format instead of direct answers to the 17 questions ODI asked. These responses were used in writing the government response to the Right to Control consultation.

Arthritis Care (PDF, 39 KB)
Buckinghamshire County Council (PDF, 28 KB)
Citizens Advice Bureau (PDF, 32 KB)
Disability Employment Advisory Committee (PDF, 74 KB)
Independent Living in Scotland (PDF, 45 KB)
National Council for Independent Living (PDF, 86 KB)
National Young Carers Coalition (PDF, 29 KB)
Rethink (PDF, 140 KB)
Scope (PDF, 53 KB)
Transition Information Network Council for Disabled Children (PDF, 34 KB)

Thank you to all the people and organisations that took part.

Consultation documents

The government ran a consultation from 11 June to 30 September 2009 on the new right to give disabled people more control over the funding they receive. The consultation is now closed. However, the the consultation documents are still available to download here.

Consultation on Right to Control (PDF, 78 pages, 3.71 MB)
Consultation on Right to Control - Easy Read (PDF, 92 pages, 2.12 MB)
Consultation on Right to Control - Rich Text version (RTF, 78 Pages, 220 KB)
Have your say on Right to Control (MS Word, 2 pages, 39 KB)

To request a copy of the consultation in Braille, audio CD or BSL DVD email right.control@dwp.gsi.gov.uk or telephone 020 7449 5093.

Consultation toolkit

ODI created a toolkit to enable organisations to involve disabled people in their consultation response or organise their own consultation event. Service providers could use the it to engage with service users.