Personalisation

This course introduces the Government’s Social Care reforms regarding Personalisation of care to people working with service users with Learning Disabilities. The main idea behind Individual or Personal Budgets is to put the person who is supported, or given services, in control of deciding what support or services they get.

The course will identify the processes involved, explore the transforming social care agenda, help workers to assess and manage risk when working with vulnerable service users and in helping them to create and manage their own support plans, help people to maintain choice and control over their lives and ensure Safeguarding underpins the process. There will be the opportunity to consolidate learning through practice scenarios.

Learning objectives:

By the end of this course participants should be able to understand:

• The historical influences to shaping of Individual or (Personalised) budgets
• The key provisions in the new Personalisation reforms and its relationship to Safeguarding people
• The process outlined in Independence, Choice and Risk by helping to put people at the centre of the decision making process- Human rights, risk and the preservation of rights
• How to promote the flexibility of the scheme in order for people to gain the right support they want and how to organise it from a broker, an advocate, family or friends.
• How to help people have to have choice and control over their lives, and that making a choice can involve some risk, responsibilities and implications
• Safeguarding adults/ self care responsibilities/risks
• Working across agencies & systems
• The process and mechanics of risk assessment and risk management using the supported decision tool
• Risk and the law-The duty of care and Capacity
• How to use the assessment of risk in planning, monitoring and evaluating support/support plans

Training methods:

• Tutor presentation
• Group work
• Case studies
• PowerPoint presentation
• Handouts