1. Support Planning
What’s new?

4. Support Plan process Stage 1 - Social work assessment / support plan
Stage 2 - Personal Profile (Level 1) - Getting to know me and helping me achieve my personal outcomes
Stage 3 - Personal Profile (Level 2) - Helping me to settle in and achieve my personal outcomes
Stage 4 - My Support Plan and Health and Wellbeing Log
Stage 5 - Review of Support Plan
On-Going Review
Six month review
Annual review

5. Sense Scotland approach
Our approach is person-centred according to the five criteria set by Turnbull et al (in Carnaby, 1999):
the process invites support from others
it creates connections between people
the process serves to ‘envision expectations’
problems are solved
progress is celebrated

6. Key questions Who are you?
Who are we in your life? (What role do you want us to play?)
What can we do together to support a better quality life for you now and in the future?

7. Important to

8. Important for

9. Person-centred e-learning course
12 person centred thinking tools are outlined in three areas:
Getting to know someone
The Perfect Week
Ongoing Learning and Review

10. Additional resources
Person-centred e-learning course (available on the Staff Homepage - Learning and Development)
Person-centred thinking tools

11. What are the important elements of effective planning and assessment?
Ownership – should belong to the person being assessed and must involve the person being assessed
Collaboration and sharing – should be able to go with the person, building on what is known and only attempting to discover new information.
Cyclical process –must be an ongoing process that helps supporters to know exactly what support a person wants and how to offer it in the most effective way.
Have a clear purpose – if you are not gathering information to influence change, then why find it out?
Build on positives – avoid the deficit model and instead find out what people can do, what they want and what they need.
Done by people who know what they are doing.
Holistic – consider the whole person in the situations in which they live and work, alongside the people with whom they live and work.