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Commissioning for Support
Planning and Brokerage:
A resource tool. This tool is designed for voluntary use by
council commissioners and local stakeholders
involved in introducing personal budgets for
people who use social care support.
Good practice in Support Planning and Brokerage
This good practice paper has been written to
capture the emerging practice around support
planning and brokerage. As time develops
and self-directed support and personal
budgets are implemented, practice will
develop further.
This paper describes two review processes. Working / Not Working and Four Plus Two.
This paper is titled 'From a Support Plan to an Individual Service Fund'.When someone wants to use their individual budget to buy supports from a provider, we call it an Individual Service Fund (ISF).
What are we learning about developing Individual Service
Funds?
An Individual Service Fund (ISF) is when someone wants to use their individual budget to buy supports from a provider.
This paper looks at what we are learning about this. Written by Owen Cooper and Helen Sanderson with Ruth Gorman, Michelle Livesley and Terry Keely IAS services
Thinking about Support Planning
This paper briefly explains the 4 core elements of Support Planning:
1. Clear expectations
2. A range of ways for people to get support if they need it
3. Images of possibility
4. A review process.
Comparing Care Plans and Support Plans
A Support Plan describes what a person wants to change about their life and how they will use their Individual Budget to make these changes happen. Support Plans should replace Care Plans, rather than trying to run two systems alongside each other. This paper compares care plans and support plans.
Care Management and Individual Budget Process
This paper describes how the care management process usually works, and compares this to how the individual budget process works.
What needs to be in a Support Plan
In order for the care manager to agree the release of money for the Budget, they must be able to see and agree a plan that meets clear criteria. This paper describes the 7 criteria for signing off a support plan.
Step by Step Guide to Support Planning
There are 10 questions that can help you to develop your Support Plan. This guide takes you though the questions and suggest some ideas and tools to help you.
Life and Support Planning
Life and Support Planning Materials
This support planning process has been developed from life coaching and person centred planning. It uses a ‘wheel’ diagram to help you think about how satisfied you are with your life.
In the Driving Seat
Top Tips
This approach has been developed for people with learning disabilities. Top Tips is a guide to help people complete In the Driving Seat
Support Planning and Older People
This approach has been developed with older people in mind, and includes questions about the person’s history.
Support Planning with Younger People
What needs to be in a younger persons support plan.
Strategy for Support Planning
Developing a strategy
for support planning –
guide questions
This document is designed to help you develop your local
strategy for support planning.
Examples of completed Support Plan Strategies
York
Sheffield Strategy
Sheffield Action Plan
Essex
Read how we are supporting person centred planning in the North West
Learning and Living Now Project
Learning & Living Now is an innovative project funded by the Learning & Skills Council (LSC). This paper explores the project in more detail
Learning and Living Support Plan
Bill's example of a Learning and Living Support Plan
Making your Support Plan- as Easy to read booklet
This booklet outlines what is required to make your support plan including who can help you and what you can and can’t spend your money on
Person centred planning and support planning
Person centred planning and support planning are from the same family: underpinned by the same values, and both have a foundation of person centred thinking. This paper explores this in more detail
Introduction to Planning Live!
Two crucial questions in support planning are ‘who?' and ‘how?' Not everyone will want support to help them plan, but if they do, who can help them? Whether someone is supported by a care manager, support planner or independent broker, how will they plan? There is a range of different ways to develop a support plan and this paper describes one approach called ‘Planning Live!'. This document also talks about one way to train support planners and the experience of using Planning Live! in Essex.
An Example Training Strategy for Support Planning
This paper looks at building your capacity for support planning
Quality Assurance and Support Planning (Coming Soon)
In the seven steps to being inControl, the local authority agrees support plans. This paper looks at how managers and care managers agree the plan, including pros and cons of different approaches
Example plans:
Example Support Plan for S
Example Support Plan for J
Example Support Plan for H
Example Support Plan for M
Example Support Plan for Ben
One Pagers
Contact
jo@helensandersonassociates.co.uk
Templates
Visit our template section to see the Support Planning Graphic
Training and Consultancy
Visit our Training and Consultancy section for more information regarding courses on Support Planning or Planning Live!