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Central Lancashire
Person Centred Planning
News
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Local News & Discussion |
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PCP Task Group Meetings 2013 - 2014
To download a PDF of these details click here. |
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PCP Audit
On 20th March 2013 we shared our PCP Audit with the Central Lancashire partnership Board.
The PCP audit looked at what is working and what is not working
about person centred thinking and planning in our area.
To read the full audit, click here.
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New Paper on Circles of Support and Personalisation
Max Neill and Helen Sanderson have published a paper on Circles of Support.
Circles of Support are a way that people and their families and other supporters can organise their support.
This paper explores ideas about how we might build circles of support at scale, so that lots of people
can build better lives with the support of an active circle.
Click here to download a copy
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How do I get a
Community Care Assessment?
A leaflet to help you find out
about getting an assessment
and getting a budget
to pay for
the support you need. |
How to get help if you need it
and have a learning disability
The Preston Local Learning Disability Forum have published this useful leaflet
which explains how to get help if you have a learning disability.
There are four more pages of the leaflet.
Click on the picture to get the full document, or click here.
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New Training Website
The South Lancashire Learning Disability
Training Consortium's new website has just 'gone live'.
Click here to visit the website |
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A useful book for anyone
involved in leading change
designed to result in
increased personalisation,
choice and control for
people that use health
and social care services. |
A Practical Guide to Personalisation:
Person Centred Practice in Health and Social Care
Helen Sanderson and Jaimee Lewis
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Get more information about this
book from:
www.citizencentredleadership.com
and
inclusionpress@inclusion.com
Link to Contents Page |
Conversations on Citizenship and Person Centred Work
New book edited by John O'Brien and Carol Blessing
Now Available in the UK
From Inclusion Distribution
Price £16.15, plus 10% p&p
Contact Inclusion Distribution
29 Heron Drive
Poynton
Stockport
SK12 1QR
Tel/Fax 01625 269243
www.inclusiononline.co.uk |
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Help Direct Website Launched
Help Direct are a service that helps Lancashire people to find practical support,
information and advice. They will try to signpost you to services that can help you with
your issue. They also operate a 'safe trader scheme'.
Click here to view the Help Direct website
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The NHS has launched the "E"s of
self management.
They are ways that professionals
can help people with long term
conditions gain more power and
control over their health. |
The Five "E"s of Self Management
Find out more about the 5 "E"s on the Department of Health Website
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"When We Don't Agree"
Tools to deal with conflict during person centred planning
Max Neill, Saffiyah Patel and Catherine Dobson have just released a paper exploring the issue of the conflicts that sometimes arise during person centred planning. It includes tools that facilitators can use to address conflict issues openly and calmly, using tools like 'The 5 conflict questions'.
Click here to download a copy.
If we're facilitating discussions where there may be strong differences of opinion, then we need to become skilled at "constructive disagreement". Failing to do this can result either in false consensus or destructive argument, both of which are ultimately blocks to change.
The aim of our paper is to find ways to handle disagreement positively, to acknowledge differences, and to direct the energies generated in disagreement and discussion toward positive change in the life of the person.
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PCP Audit Report 2009/2010
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PCP Audit 2009 - 2010
For the first time ever, this year's Central Lancashire PCP Audit was led and conducted by family members and people with learning disabilities. The audit shows us what we are doing well, and what we need to work harder at in order to deepen and spread personalisation and person-centred approaches in our area.
One big headline is that the audit shows that the number of people who are getting person centred reviews has doubled since the last audit.
Thanks to Peter and Wendy Crane, to all the auditors, and to all the services that participated in the audit!
Download the audit report here
Download the PCP coordinator's audit response here
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New Person Centred Planning Guidance Launched
"Personalisation through Person Centred Planning" is a new publication by the Department of Health which shows how person centred planning can be used to achieve the objectives of 'Putting People First'.
It has 3 key messages:
* Person centred planning and support planning are practical ways to deliver personalised services and self-directed support
* Person centred planning and support planning are simple ways to achieve co-production, enabling people to shape and commission their own services and make decisions about how they want to spend their personal budget to live their lives
* Person centred planning is not intended to add, nor should it add, unneccessary complexity or costs to self-directed support
Upload 'Personalisation through person centred planning here'
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Visit your local library! |
Chorley Library and Leyland Library accessible information:
Lancashire libraries are trying hard to make themselves more accessible to everyone, including people with learning disabilities.
Why not take a trip to your local library, to find out what they have to offer?
Chorley and Leyland libraries have shared these information sheets with us:
Chorley Library
Leyland Library
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Preston Service
User Network
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Come to the Preston Service User Network Meeting!
If you want to join a group of people with learning disabilities in Preston.
If you want to talk about your life, the services you receive, and how to make them better, then come along to the Preston service user Network meeting.
For more information contact Helen McCondichie
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Lancashire Communication
Guide
Everyone communicates.
Do we properly understand
the communication of
the people we support?
Are we sharing what we
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Lancashire Communication Guide Launched
A new toolkit that will help us learn and record people's communication has been launched by Central Lancashire's Communication Task Group.
Are we listening properly for what people are telling us with their words and behaviour?
The guide includes a variety of person centred tools and formats for recording the person's methods of communication, as we learn more about them.
You can download templates and examples of the Lancashire Communication Guide here
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You can get a copy of the Communication Guide on a disk
by ringing Kathy Pemberton or Scilla Reed on 01772 644130 |
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They will be happy to give advice on how to use the guide. |
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New website: www.pcp4me.net
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New Person Centred Thinking Website Launched
PCP coordinators and leads in East Lancashire have put together a brilliant new website on Person Centred Thinking and Planning
The site is well thought out, well written, and full of excellent examples of the use of person centred thinking to enable real people to make positive changes in their lives.
You can look at the new website by clicking here:
www.pcp4me.net
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65 People A Week Will Get a Personal Budget in Lancashire
A report which has been described as 'practical and illuminating' and containing 'sound practical guidance and some creative innovative practice' has been published on the last five years of work around Self Directed Support and personal budgets for people supported by Lancashire County Council's care services.
Kim Haworth, the County's Commissioning Lead for Personalisation says in her report "We are already far beyond the pilot stages of SDS. Our target is 10,775 personal budgets by 2011 and we are in the throes of a metamorphosis as radical as that experienced by any local authority in recent times... this requires us to enable 65 people a week from April 2009 to have a personal budget - no mean feat"
A personal budget is when:
1.The person knows what their indicative budget is, so they can plan their support
2. They have a support plan that has been signed off, and the money released
3. They know that the support plan will be reviewed at least once a year.
Richard Jones, Executive director of Adult and Community Services said "It is about treating people as customers who want services to be developed with them and not handed down to them as a result of a professional assessment or decision... Personalisation is here to stay. It makes sense in terms of better outcomes for people, and it makes sense in terms of our value base as social care professionals"
You can download the full report from the 'In Control' website:
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Personalisation is all about me |
Personalisation in Lancashire
We've launched a new web-page to talk about 'personalisation', a word that everyone connected with health and social care is hearing at the moment.
Person Centred Thinking and Planning are key to making Personalisation work, and be more than a buzz-word.
We're looking for people's stories, articles and links that will enhance this personalisation page.
To visit the page, click the link below:
PERSONALISATION PAGE
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Helen Smith: Accredited
as a Person Centred Review
Trainer |
Helen Smith: "An Exceptional Trainer"
Central Lancashire's PCP coordination team is celebrating today as Helen Smith has received her accreditation as a trainer in Person Centred Reviews.
Gill Bailey, of Helen Sanderson Associates was Helen's mentor. In her evaluation of Helen's skills, she said:
"You are an exceptional trainer... your knowledge of the content is excellent. You are a fantastic facilitator and without doubt should be accredited. I thought you were super"
 
Person Centred Review Training in full swing
This accreditation means that Helen is now able to deliver the Person Centred Review training to train people to become facilitators of Person Centred Reviews. She can also deliver training on the diverse range of person centred thinking tools available.
Together with Max Neill, person centred planning coordinator, who is accredited in delivering Essential Lifestyle Planning and person centred thinking tools, the team are now able to deliver a wide range of training to enable organisations to embed person centred approaches into their core work and really focus on supporting people in a way that enables people to make positive changes in their lives.
Max Neill said "I'm not surprised at all that Helen has done so well. She has a deep understanding of Person Centred Thinking and is doing great work promoting it across the area. Person Centred Reviews are a very powerful way of thinking with a person about their life, and can lead to big changes that can enable the person to get more of what is important to them in their lives"
Helen celebrates with some of the new Person Centred Review Facilitators
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'Valuing People Now: From Progress to Transformation'
You can send your views on this consultation to the Valuing People Support Team
'Valuing People Now'
Easy read version
"It is a human rights issue that all people with learning disabilities have the choices and control over their lives that so many of us take for granted - a life like any other"
Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Health |
Valuing People Now
'Valuing People Now' has a lot to say about Person Centred Planning as a key way to improve the personalisation of services:
"person centred planning has been shown to work. The world's largest study into person centred planning described how it helps people get improvements in their lives"
The document also points out how much there is still to be done:
"too few people have access to proper person centred planning, receive a direct payment or are involved with an individual budget.
In too many local authorities, person centred planning is not at the centre of how things are done.
The challenge for the next three years is to take all this innovative work and make sure that more - and eventually all - people have real choice and control over their lives and services"
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The Priorities in 'Valuing People Now'
'Valuing people Now' has 4 big priorities:
1. People having more choice and control over their lives and services (personalisation)
2. What people do in the days and evenings (including getting a paid job)
3. People being healthy and getting a good service from the NHS
4. People having more choices about where they live
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We will be thinking and talking about 'Valuing People Now' in our Partnership Board and Task Groups and taking action to make it happen.
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Chorley and South Ribble's PCP Website gets International Recognition
Nan Carle is a Commissioner of Services for people with Developmental Disabilities in Southern Arizona, and a recognised international expert on Community Inclusion.
In an article for 'Community Connecting' Magazine she writes:
"The Chorley and South Ribble Partnership Board has an Excellent web site that discusses Person Centred Thinking Coaching. (www.csrpcp.net)
They describe a Person Centred Thinking Coach as someone who "tries to make sure their organisation and their teams use Person Centred Approaches whenever they support people".
Theirs is one example of progressing our knowledge base about using coaches in organisations that support people with learning disabilities"
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You can read more of what we have written about Person Centred Thinking Coaching here.
Max Neill, our Person Centred Planning Coordinator in Chorley and South Ribble has also had an article on Person Centred Thinking published in the Community Connecting Magazine. Find out more by clicking here.
*Stop Press* A good friend of our website has sent us the following feedback:
"I am in Australia, and the Government in Victoria has listed your website as a very useful resource in person centred planning"
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and an Independent Facilitator from Detroit has written:
"Your website is the most Extraordinary, Humanistic and Empathic web site I have ever visited".
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If you have feedback for our website, at home or overseas, please let us know what you think by contacting us here
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Your right to go to college, and to get education that reflects who you are and where you want to go in life. |
Person Centred Planning In Further Education
The government's Department for Education and Skills, along with the Department of Health and the Department for Work and Pensions has brought out a report about the right of people with learning disability to access college and Further Education.
The report is called "Progression Through Partnership".
It states that all people with learning difficulties "have a right to expect high quality services which are person centred and/or personalised to meet need."(p7)
It advocates that this should be done through "person centred planning and Individual Learning Pathways" (p8) and pledges to "ensure that person centred planning is at the heart of all decision making and planning for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities"(p19).
It recognises some of the work that has already been done around Person Centred Reviews with young people in transition, calling for "person centred transition planning at school which takes into account the developing aspirations and views of the individual with regard to employment, relationships, citizenship, leisure activities etc"(p20)
It is important that we think hard about how we can work together to make these things happen in Central Lancashire.
Click here to read the full report
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John O'Brien is one of the leading thinkers in the field of disability. He has been a pioneer and lifelong advocate of Person Centred Planning and Inclusion.
Challenging Segregation
His work has inspired all those involved in challenging institutional service-centred practices and values such as segregation and congregation, labelling, low expectations and resistance to creativity and change.
Connecting With The Community
He seeks to develop ongoing learning about how to relate in a human way to people, asserting the rights of everyone to share ordinary places, make choices about their lives, experience respect and belonging, and to find ways to contribute their gifts and abilities to the community.
Learning and Changing
On 16th February, John spoke in Chorley to a meeting of 50 people, which included people who use services, family members and people who provide services.
We thought about Person Centred Planning in relation to four themes: Asking/Listening, Acting/Learning, Conflict/Clarity and Impatience/Endurance.
Click Here to access some of John O'Brien's writings.
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"One little person, giving all of her time, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history"
Peace Pilgrim
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