Mark Sheldon

This joint good practice guidance published by the Putting People First and Valuing People Now teams has been developed to help local areas understand how person-centred planning can help to deliver Putting People First. It is one of the commitments in Valuing People Now.

It includes a range of tools and good practice examples on person centred planning and support planning to help give people more choice and control over their lives.

Download Personalisation Through Person-Centred Planning

Other advice for download includes:

Advice for Professionals

Advice for using person-centred thinking, planning and reviews in schools and transition

Advice for Commissioners

Advice for Providers

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This At a glance briefing examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for community-based health and social care staff supporting people with a learning disability.

Key Messages – Personalisation for community learning disability staff means:

• all staff work to develop a partnership between themselves and those who want a personal budget
• staff perform an enabling role which gives people with learning disabilities choice and control
• work to support users to undertake a self assessment, make best use of the Resource Allocation System to secure funding and help people to develop a support plan
• ensuring people have the right information about what they can purchase
• collating unmet needs and giving this information to commissioners to help them develop greater choice in the market
• the task includes the development of community and natural supports to promote people’s independence, autonomy and active citizenship
• all staff should have good training, support and development opportunities to enable

Download this briefing via SCIE site here

The report Raising our sights: services for adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities has been launched on 19th March 2010.

The report, written by Professor Jim Mansell, and commissioned as part of the Valuing People Now delivery plan highlights the most important parts of planning and delivering support for people with the most complex needs

Download Raising our sights here

Implications for people with autistic spectrum conditions and their family carers

This At a Glance briefing examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for people with autistic spectrum conditions.

Produced by Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) the key messages it contains include;-

The National Life Story Network was launched at a conference in Leeds on 12th February. The network provides a national forum (www.lifestorynetwork.org.uk) to support the use of Life Story work among people with mental illness including dementia.

Lifestory network launch from NMHDU on Vimeo.

Life Story is a growing area of interest in policy and practice relating to the care of people. The Network has been promoted and supported by an independent steering group, with representation from a range of national and regional partners, including the Dignity in Care (DH) campaign, the National Dementia Strategy, Mental Health Foundation and the National Mental Health Development Unit.

www.lifestorynetwork.org.uk

The VPN newsletter is for people with learning disabilities, family carers, learning disabilities partnership boards, selfadvocacy groups and anyone who works with people with learning disabilities.

It tells you what they are doing to make Valuing People Now happen for everyone,
everywhere.

Covered in this newsletter, that is produced roughly quarterly,  is information about work that is going on in the regions and nationally.

It can be downloaded here

NMHDU Personalisation in Mental Health Programme guide has been produced to help all those involved understand how things will need to be done differently to make personalisation a reality for people with mental health needs. http://www.pathstopersonalisation.org.uk/

What is Personalisation?- A Brief Explanation from NMHDU on Vimeo.

Paths to personalisation has been published as a series of web pages, as a pdf to download, it has been made available on www.scribd.com for download in e-reader and various mobile device formats and has a DVD produced by the Community TV Trust with content filmed in the North West provided by Bluesci, funded by the North West Joint Improvement Partnership for NMHDU as a further supporting resource all of which are accessible on their website.

More information here http://www.pathstopersonalisation.org.uk/

This booklet has been produced by the Working Together with Parents Network (www.right-support.org.uk). The Network was set up with funding from the Baring Foundation and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to support the development and sharing of positive practice in supporting parents with learning disabilities and learning difficulties.

This booklet tells the stories of six families headed by a parent or parents with learning disabilities or difficulties, from England, Wales and Scotland, who have been
enabled – with the right support from professionals – to look after their children and safeguard their welfare.

This practice guidance concerning the involvement of Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCAs) in safeguarding adults is jointly published by the ADASS and SCIE. It replaces the Practice guidance criteria for the use of IMCAs in safeguarding adults published by ADASS in 2007.

Read more here

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