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Call to add personal budgets to ratings Individualised budgets for disabled people should be made part of the star ratings system, disability campaigners say.

The National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) has asked the government to look at measuring independent living outcomes like it does direct payments.

NCIL was responding to the government's paper Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People, which outlines piloting personal budgets from this year, bringing together sources of funding, services equipment and adaptations.

The NCIL also urged resolving the "confusion" between health and social care services over which should take responsibility for the provision of direct payments.

Disability charity Scope raised concerns about where the money would be found to drive the strategy forward, and called for a "broader definition" of independent living.

And Mencap called for a national centre to be set up to meet a "critical" need for early intervention.

The consultation period ended this week.