Personalisation through Person Centred Planning - the new Person Centred Planning Guidance

The guidance is one main document and 4 workbooks and is available at the bottom of this page.

Quick Summary

Person centred planning is a big part of government plans for personalised services. It works well for everybody - not just people with learning disabilities.

Any plans or strategies about person centred planning need to be part of the local areas plans on personalisation and advice is given about how the guidance meets all the various government plans and the areas that local plans should consider.

Key messages

Person centred planning and support planning are:

• practical ways to deliver personalised services and self directed support
• simple ways to ensure co-production and for people to design their own support
• shouldn't make support planning more difficult or costly

Information from person centred / outcome focused reviews will feed co-produced commissioning plans and provider development.

Strong leadership is key to creating a person centred culture within the organisation where everyone understands the vision and their roles within it.

Maximise the existing person centred planning trained staff and co-ordinators and re focus facilitators (where they exist) to provide mentoring and coaching for others rather than just developing plans.

Grow person centred plans and support plans from starting point of person centred reviews and one page profiles for all.

Key Priority Actions for councils

Provision of clear information and advice on person centred support planning. So that people can understand what support planning is, what they can spend their money on and who can help them plan

• Ensure a range of people have the skills to support planning not just care managers
• Focus on providing guides for people to plan for themselves with support from others if required
• Implement person centred reviews for everyone accessing services and outcome focused reviews for those with personal budgets
• Define leadership for person centred thinking, planning and reviews
• Invest in person centred thinking and building a local resource through champions and mentoring
• Adopt Working Together for Change or a similar model as a way to co-produce commissioning and strategic plans

Summary of advice for schools and transition

This is very similar to the adults guidance and is linked to the Getting a Life programme. The aims are:

• Person centred transition reviews with a focus on work as an outcome, preferably with indicative budgets at an early stage
• Use person centred thinking to develop individual education plans and personalised learning plans
• Use information from reviews to inform school development plans, future commissioning and transition strategies

Summary of advice for commissioners

It is a shift from traditional commissioning and contract compliance approach to co-production and partnership working with providers and the people for whom we purchase services

• Use information from person centred reviews to inform co-produced commissioning plans
• Involve people in the design, delivery and evaluation of their services
• Move to individual service fund models
• Working Together for Change model not only influences future commissioning but quality monitoring, development and delivery of existing services

Summary of advice for professionals

Focus on role of staff within person centred practice, eg, person centred reviews and creating a person centred culture within organisation

• Promotion of person centred approaches to personal health planning
• Using person centred thinking tools in everyday practice, team and organisational planning

Summary of advice for providers

As with others create a person centred culture through organisation, eg, person centred teams, person centred thinking tools, systems and processes, etc

• Personalising support to individuals accessing their services including things like individually costed support plans, etc
• Adopt person centred reviews through to Working Together for Change model to feed local development plans

• Personalisation through Person Centred Planning