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People, plans and practicalities: achieving change through person centred planning
- Authors:
- RITCHIE Pete, et al
- Publisher:
- Scottish Human Services Trust
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 196p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This book examines the thinking behind person centred planning when providing services for people with learning difficulties and looks at how the process works in practice. It focus in particular on joint working across services, including health and education, and looking at the person's whole environment.
A plan for life
- Author:
- READ K.A.
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 25.4.90, 1990, pp.34-36.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Life planning for learning disabled people means consulting then assessing the whole range of their needs and regularly monitoring any action taken.
Making individual plans for change
- Author:
- FLEMING Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 16(2), June 1988, pp.77-79.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Meetings of clients and staff identified individual programme plans which are evaluated at regular intervals.
The illusion of power
- Author:
- RIDDINGTON Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.3.07, 2007, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
It is now almost six years since the establishment of learning disability partnership boards. Research has found that the partnership between public sector managers and lay members is not on equal terms as defined in the white paper Valuing People. Where primary care trusts cascade learning disability development funding to partnership boards it is possible to provide opportunities for people with learning disabilities to allocate money to enable "bottom up" initiatives to be supported.
Retirement or just a change of pace: an Australian national survey of disability day services used by older people with disabilities
- Authors:
- BIGBY Christine, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 29(3), September 2004, pp.239-254.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Definitions of old age selected by researchers should reflect differences in culture and life expectancy within and between developing and developed nations. Fifty-five years was used to denote older people in both the Australian national survey and a Victorian study. Consequently, 55 years and older has been used to denote older people in this study. people with a lifelong disability are discussed. A postal survey of 596 day programmes for people with disabilities was conducted, with a response rate of 28%. Findings show that only 19% of service users were aged over 55, and the largest subgroup were people with intellectual disability. Many older people attended programs that were not age specific and a typology of the seven program types utilised was constructed. Individualised planning, flexibility and choice were perceived as fundamental to a successful program. The location of activities in the community, maintenance of social relationships, and opportunities to develop new contacts were also seen as important. Little understanding, however, of the diversity of the ageing process or notions of healthy ageing was demonstrated by service providers, many of whom had limited expectations of older people. Challenges identified in providing day support for older people were lack of financial resources, knowledge and expertise amongst staff, and difficulties interfacing with other service systems.
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.
Planning and action
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, STANCLIFFE Roger J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), March 2004, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Raises a a number of concerns about the possible impact of the systematic introduction of person-centred planning (PCP) across services for people with intellectual disabilities in the UK. The authors foresee a danger that system-wide adoption of PCP will be characterised over zealous 'selling' of the purported benefits without sufficient attention to the difficulties and without the necessary changes to system architecture to ensure that those involved in PCP have the authority or resources to achieve the plan's goals. If so, PCP will become another fad, and service users, and their families will become even more discouraged, disheartened and alienated by a system characterised by rhetoric rather than meaningful action. Where the authors differ, is in the interpretation of the existing evidence regarding the impact of individual planning systems in general and, perhaps, in the way forward.
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.
People, plans and possibilities: exploring person centred planning
- Authors:
- SANDERSON Helen, et al
- Publisher:
- Scottish Human Services Trust
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 213p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Aimed at care managers and other professionals, managers and support staff, parents and carers, and anyone else involved in planning and implementing services for people with learning difficulties. Based on projects in Manchester and Scotland, the book begins by looking at what person centred planning is; the beliefs and values on which it is based; the methods it uses; and its consequences. It then goes on to look in depth at the practice of person centred planning and what makes it different; provides descriptions and illustrations of the five planning styles (essential lifestyle planning, individual service design, personal futures planning, Maps, and PATH); looks at how it can create change for all those involved, including service providers; and concludes by putting person centred planning into the broader policy and practice context in the UK.
Individual programme planning: where is the 'individual'?
- Author:
- CARNABY Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 4(3), July 1999, pp.4-9.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Individual programme planning, or person-centred planning, is widely recognised as a tool for assisting learning disability services to structure and co-ordinate the support offered to the service. This article reviews the research evidence, to assess the extent to which planning processes are considered person-centred, and how services ensure that users have a major say in planning and determining the help they receive. A case study describes the role of working groups and the importance of communication in determining specific person-centred planning processes.