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Support Planning and Review Strategy Day.

This one day workshop is designed to introduce best practice recommendations for commencing the process of developing a robust support planning and review strategy.

The objectives of this day are for participants to:

Be introduced to an overview of the self-directed support process and understand where support planning and review processes lie within self-directed support.
Explore the five pathways/approaches to support planning and brokerage.
Use a framework of 10 key areas of best practice recommendations to develop a support planning and review strategy, which places support planning at the heart of the selfdirected support process.
Explore what is working and what is not working currently against those 10 key areas.
Develop an action plan considering what it will take to implement the support plan and review strategy within an agreed timeframe, for example in 2 years time. Then for participants to develop and one year plan and finally their immediate next steps.

Who is it for?

Strategic stakeholders/representation, from all those involved in self-directed support/support planning within the field of social care - practitioners, managers, finance/human resource. Also decision-makers with responsibilities for agreeing support plans, personalisation team members and all other key decision makers who would authorise making resource decisions around support plans and anyone from a senior management level.

What will people know and be able to do as a result of attending this course?

Participants will:

Gain a deeper understanding of the new process of enabling people to access social care and support services by self directing their support and using personal budgets.
Gain an understanding of the seven essential criteria which must be present in a support plan and use the agreed criteria for signing off locally developed support plans.
Be able to demonstrate how people in receipt of a personal budget are self directing their life, by developing local brokerage options, capacity and opportunities.
Be able to act on national best practice and immediately begin the process of implementing the robust action plan developed.

How long is this course?

2 Days - one day to facilitate and one day to co-write the strategy.

How much does this course cost?

UK costs: £1400 excluding VAT, materials and expenses. Please contact kerry@helensandersonassociates.co.uk

For more information regarding delivery and costs of this course internationally, please contact:
In the USA contact amandag@helensandersonassociates.com

In Canada contact juliem@hsacanada.ca

In Australia contact info@helensandersonassociates.com.au