Welcome
Preparation for Adulthood
Person Centred Planning Launch
What do we want to achieve?
 Better life chances for children and young people with
SEND
 Increased parental confidence in the support available
 Increased independence, choice and control for families
 Improved transition to adulthood
 Better use of resources
Raise Aspirations
• Young people, families and everyone who works
with them need to know what is possible,
positive and what works
• Everyone needs to know that young people with
complex needs can achieve their ambitions
Key Messages
• Work together for change with young people and families from the
beginning
• Embed best practice in person-centred planning and support
planning in the development of the single assessment and
education, health and care plan
• Develop the market so that it can deliver post-16 options that lead to
employment, independent living, good health, friends, relationships
and community inclusion
• Embedding a person-centred approach – testing new
tools and software
• Identify barriers to successful transition and seek to
overcome these through new approaches
• Build on best practice in the Learning for Living and
Work Framework as the Single Transition Plan
• Build on best practice in partnership working to improve
outcomes
• Pilot a ‘job brokerage’ to support a group of college
leavers into employment
Pathways to Getting a Life
What next?
‘If you want to know how well a pair
of shoes fit you ask the person
wearing them not the person who
made them, or paid for them.’
Anon
It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela
Person Centred Planning
Will Fletcher
Learning for Living and Work
Person Centred Planning
• Person-centred planning (PCP) is a set
of approaches designed to assist
someone to plan their life and supports.
• Has its roots in inclusion
• Based on social model of disability
• Originated from North America from the
early 70’s
College
Day Centre
Special College
Courses
Special homes
Hobbies
Friends
Pets
Special Bus
Special
Schools
Special
Swimming
Parties
Work
Colleagues
Money
Love
Marriage
Home
Neighbours
Being ME!
5 key principles of
Person Centred Planning
(British Institute of Learning disabilities)
• The person is at the centre: Person Centred Planning is
rooted in the principles of rights, independence and
choice.
• Family members and friends are full partners
• Person Centred Planning reflects a person's capacities,
what is important to a person (now and for the future)
• Person Centred Planning builds a shared commitment to
action that recognises a person's rights
• Person Centred Planning leads to continual listening,
learning and action and helps the person get what they
want out of life
Impact and Value of PCP
“The world's largest study into person centred
planning described how it helps people get
improvements in important parts of their lives and
indicated that this was at no additional cost”
(Valuing People Now 2009)
Continuing support for personalisation:
'Capable Communities and Active Citizens' (2010)
'Think Local, Act Personal' (2011)
Aiming High for Disabled Children
Transition Support Programme (2008- 2011)
• support disabled young people to live the lives they want
• provide better support for disabled young people and
their families
• change culture to improve local service delivery
• support every local area to share learning and improve.
Hertfordshire Key Priorities
• Development of a single person centred multi agency
transition plan
• Development of person centred approaches to transition
reviews
delivered in their area, increasing their choice and control’.
Person
centred
approaches
Values and
beliefs
Person
centred
plans
Ideas4Life - History
Pre-2009
Ideas4Life paper guides for
students with moderate and severe
learning difficulties and
parents/carers
2009
Production of DVD
Ongoing
Production of new I4L paper guides
Development of I4L PCP software
Ideas4Life – PCP software
Through consultation during and after
DVD production it became clear...
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There were many examples of good
practice in PCP throughout
Hertfordshire
There was a need and willingness to
share good practice
A tool was required to provide this –
specialist Herts-specific software
Ideas4Life – The software
What is it/What does it do?
Information gathering tool
 Self-help tool
 A dynamic way of recording
achievements, people of importance,
what is and isn't working for a student,
hopes and aspirations
 A means of presenting information in
text, images and video
 A PCP presentation tool
 A growing, and developing document
Transportable to other settings
 A tool for students, their families and
the professionals around them
Ideas4Life – structure
Menu/Navigation/Introduction
My world/My people set-up screens
Main input screens
Presentation screens
Ideas4Life – Today...
Have a play!
Ideas4Life … and beyond
Help us to pilot the software
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As it's a new programme, it is likely to have bugs and errors we haven't found yet
It features mainly students with moderate to severe learning difficulties – and
symbols – do these work for other students?
Is it asking the right questions?
Does it need to be customisable?
...etc.
By being a part of the pilot phase, you and your students can help us to improve,
develop and refine the tool.
Once it has been thoroughly tested and piloted, it can then be taken to a wider
audience.
Pilot Phase
Timeline
Today
Schools/colleges take away BETA software
April –June (half-term)
Contact with schools/colleges/Youth Connexions
Software installation
Pilot session dates confirmed
June – Oct (half-term)
Pilot Sessions
Visit 1 – 0.5 day
Demonstration and training session to staff
Gathering information and feedback from staff
Observe and monitor learners having their first experiences
of using the software.
Visit 2 – 0.5 day
Working with and observing learners (and learners
supported by staff) to monitor their interaction with the
software.
In-depth evaluation and ideas session with staff and learners
Oct-Nov
Collation, preparation of written (and video) report
December
Presentation of report to Hertfordshire County Council