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- Authors:
- McINTOSH Barbara, SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.04.06, 2006, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article reviews the findings of a major evaluation of person-centred planning for people with learning difficulties. The research, funded by the Department of Health, shows that person-centred planning has led to significant changes in the areas of social networks, contact with family, contact with friends, community-based activities, scheduled day activities, and levels of choice.
Putting the person at the centre of planning
- Authors:
- ROUTLEDGE Martin, SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(2), October 2000, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Person centred planning (PCP) is increasingly promoted as a means by which people with learning difficulties can explore and be supported to pursue the lives they wish to lead. The authors from the North West Training and Development Team report on a serious attempt to make PCP happen within a large learning disability service.
From a support plan to an Individual Service Fund
- Authors:
- SANDERSON Helen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 14, May 2008, pp.6-11.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
When someone wants to use their individual budget to buy supports from a provider, they are using an Individual Service Fund. This article looks at how a support plan can inform who the best people are to provide this support for the individual, what support staff need to be able to do, and what agreements are useful to have in place. The importance of person specifications, job descriptions and individual support agreement are highlighted. The article also includes suggested templates for a person specification template and a support workers job description are also included.
The emergence of person centred planning as evidence-based practice
- Authors:
- SANDERSON Helen, THOMPSON Jeanette, KILBANE Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 14(2), April 2006, pp.18-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Recent research has demonstrated that person-centred planning leads to positive changes for people. This research shows how person centred planning is associated with benefits in the areas of community involvement, contact with friends, contact with family and choice. This paper briefly describes this research and its recommendations. In addition it explores the implications for managers and professional supporting people with learning disabilities. The research took place over two years in four localities in England.
Person-centred planning in its strategic context
- Authors:
- TOWELL David, SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), March 2004, pp.17-21.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Valuing People, the English national strategy launched in 2001 is founded on the twin principles of self-determination and social inclusion. It promotes a vision of people with intellectual disabilities in the mainstream of life. To achieve this goal, it seeks to integrate a wide variety of elements, in which person-centred planning (PCP) is one. The authors present their critique in three main ways: by fully recognising the extent to which PCP is an intrinsic element of the national strategy, helping to operationalise its core principles; by crediting the ways in which individual planning and action are intended to become part of one continuous process; and by showing how the strategy addresses the challenge of scale by prioritising quality rather than quantity in implementing PCP, with the aspiration of creating a virtuous spiral of positive change.
Implementing person-centred planning by developing person-centred teams
- Author:
- SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(3), June 2003, pp.18-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Person-centred planning in central to Valuing People. Developing person-centred teams is a key to implementing plans. This article presents a model for developing person-centred teams. The model is based on research on providing support to people with learning difficulties in supported housing. The research generated ideas about how teams need to become person-centred to become more effective. Examples of how teams worked to implement plans are show to illustrate this process and clarify why it requires a change in thinking as well as a change in practice.
Paradigms in intellectual disability: compare, contrast, combine
- Authors:
- BURTON Mark, SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 11(1), 1998, pp.44-59.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Four relatively distinct traditions in work with people with intellectual disability are identified: ordinary living/normalisation, functional, behavioural and developmental. These approaches are analysed as paradigms which could be incompatible or compatible. The paradigms are explored in relation to a profoundly disabled man, whose case illustrates the complementarity of these approaches. It is suggested that the ordinary living paradigm is best seen as a basic guide to direction with the other paradigms feeding into it to help chiefly with implementation. However, the possibility is raised that rather than the co-existence of different paradigm, what is really being sought here is a new and super-ordinate paradigm that still awaits its full development.
Independent living: planning ahead
- Author:
- SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.2.96, 1996, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author discusses changes in approach amongst staff making plans for people with learning difficulties.