This workshop is designed to giv

SUPPORT PLANNING WORKSHOP

This workshop is designed to give attendees a broad understanding of the thought and process behind support planning, and will focus upon outcomes for service users and their families.

It covers those cases where there is and is not capacity for decision making.

It will be delivered by Tony Bennett, a Citizen Leader who had extensive management, marketing, training and consultancy experience before caring full time for his parents who both had Alzheimer’s disease. An individual budget was negotiated for Tony’s father in the IB pilot programme.

Tony will tell his father’s story, and share his support plan as part of the workshop.

Learning outcomes:

To understand the concepts of important to and important for

To appreciate the need to "know the person"

To understand the concept of outcomes and the influence of Harris et al. in their work for the Social Policy Research Unit entitled "Outcomes for Disabled Service Users"

To understand "capacity" as it relates to the support planning process

To review the five core principle of the Metal Capacity Act 2005

To understand the necessary content of support plans, and what personal budget money can and cannot be spent on

Workshop content:

The workshop will involve individual and group exercises and feedback, brainstorming, teaching, and will culminate in the attendees in preparing a support plan, in groups, from references captured during the day.

The objective will be to create a fun and interactive learning environment which will build the knowledge and confidence of those charged with assisting others through the support planning process.