Support Person Centred Thinking and Planning

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Support Person Centred Thinking and Planning Person Centred Planning (PCP) is a method of supporting and working with individuals who have a learning disability. It empowers those with disabilities to take charge of the direction they would like their life to take. Having a learning disability does not necessarily mean that the person cannot achieve their own personal aspirations, goals in life, hopes and dreams and PCP places the individuals future in their hands first rather than the carer and outside agencies. PCP does not suit every individual some learning difficulties do make it hard for them to take control of their future and in these cases family and friends and people that are close to the service user should all have a valuable input in putting together a plan with the individual’s aspirations at its heart. Person Centred Planning is a method of supporting individuals and empowering them to take charge of the direction of their life and make goals which are achievable and ultimately lead to greater social inclusion and good quality of life in every aspect from good mental health to helping them achieve and overcome physical disabilities. Learning difficulties and disability has previously been approached by being agency focused, so the agency decided the goals for them and set their targets. Multi disciplinary meetings would be held and the individual’s disability and skills assessed and their care would be around that, therefore putting the disability first and not the whole person. Getting started with person centred thinking One of the best tools to start with is the 'One Page Profile' it is essentially a list of what people like and admire about the person, what the service user is telling us is important to them, and a description of what great support looks like for them:- everyone should have one! The one page profile can then be

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