Person Centred Approaches Sub Group

Money available for Person-Centred work

The Person-Centred Approaches sub group has some LDDF money and they want someone to use that money to continue the work of supporting people who live in care homes to speak up

Anyone who is interested in doing this work should fill in the LDDF ‘bid’ form and send it to the sub group.

click here for more information about the work we want done

click here for a bid form

The deadline to send in your bids to let us know you want to do this work is 23rd June. 

Please send your Bid to:

Sandra Edwards
Community Learning Disability Services
2nd Floor
86 Denmark Villas
Hove, BN3 3TY

Email sandra.edwards@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Tel 01273 295813
Fax 01273 295135

Why Person Centred Approaches are important

We know that recently there have been two national reports into abuse of people with learning disabilities (Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust and Sutton & Merton Primary Care Trust) .Both these reports said that if people had person centred plans and the service was provided in a person centred way many of the examples of abuse and poor standards of care would not have happened.

Person Centred Approaches are very important. One of the most important things is to listen to the person with a learning disability. Person Centred Approaches will help us change the way services are provided and will empower people with learning disabilities to make decisions and changes in their lives.

This group also looks at the work being done on Direct Payments and Personal/Individual Budgets (those are types of self-directed support) for People with learning Disabilities in Brighton and Hove. This page includes information on Self Directed Support.

There is an information pack for parents, carers and supporters to help someone they know get an individual budget.  The pack gives information on all the steps from being 'eligible' for an Individual Budget, through to support planning and reviewing and monitoring. There are also some good examples of how people have used their budget and there are newsletters on what's happening locally.

Click here to see a presentation about Self Directed Support in Brighton & Hove that was given to the Learning Disabilities Providers' Forum in April of 2009.

We had a Self-Directed Support Information session

About 20 people attended an information session about self-directed support in January of 2010

They talked and learnt about ways people can direct their own support

If you could not come to the information session there is lots of information in the Self-Directed Support Documents and Links list on this webpage

A Person Centred Holiday Story:

As the holiday season is fast approaching, we thought it was a good time to share our ‘holiday booklet’ with everyone. We are David Fitzgerald and Lesley Hamilton, along with Mary Oliver - Direct Payments Advisor and Graham Lee at ‘Interact’.

We wanted to show others how it was possible to have a ‘person centered’ holiday - instead of it being packaged for you. Our ‘holiday booklet’ tells our story of how we planned and paid for our holiday; including ‘risk assessments’, staff support, transport and budgeting. We tell you what we got up to, how we made our choices, had control over what we did and finally we reflect on how it all went.

We hope you find it interesting and it gives you ideas as to what can happen when plans are ’self directed’. We hope it shows you can have ‘choice’ and ‘control’ and you can get support to make things happen the way you want.

• Hayling Island - Front Cover
• Holiday In Hayling

For more information please contact us via Graham at ‘Interact’ (01273 422971) or Mary at the Federation of Disabled People (01273 229264).

Lunch Time Learning Sessions:

For Managers and Staff working on Person Centred Planning with people with Learning Disabilities

• Person Centred Planning & Self Directed Support - 28th January 2010

• Person Centered Planning – Solutions to Problems (Come and Share Work you are doing on Person Centred Planning and talk with Person Centred Approaches Sub Group members) - 2nd March 2010

Hove Town Hall, room 3

12:00 to 2:30

Lunch will be provided

Please confirm your attendance or names of other attendees by contacting coursesforcare@brighton-hove.gov.uk

You can also telephone 01273 296184 for further information

Click here for more detail

Learning Disability Development Fund

This year (April 2010 to March 2011) our area of work has been given £15,470 from the Partnership Board's Learning Disability Development Fund. This is how we will spend it:

• Person Centred Plan Feedback database & report = £1,000
• Total Communication = £6,250
• It's My Life project = not sure yet

Here are the reports from last year's projects:

• 2009-10 - Big Bridge - website menu of services
• 2009-10 - Its My Plan project
• 2009-10 - Intensive Interactions (jointly funded with Workforce Development Sub Group)
• 2009-10 - Speaking Up in Care Homes
• Total Communication

Here are the reports from the previous year's projects:

• 2008-09 - Person Centred Transitions project
• 2008-09 - Self Directed Support project

Sub Group Membership

Sub Group Chair
and Representative to the Partnership Board:

Naomi Cox - Manager Integrated Learning Disability Services
Brighton & Hove City Council
Naomi.Cox@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Tel. 01273 - 296400

Eva Jarvis - Director Grace Eyre Foundation

Sue Winter - Transition Development Worker, AMAZE

Chris Storey - Southdown Housing Association

Tracy Mair - Service Improvement Manager, Brighton & Hove Integrated Learning Disability Services

Mary Oliver - Direct Payments Advisor (Learning Disabilities), B&H Federation of Disabled People