Self Directed Support for children and families – getting ready for change – Consider issues around SDS and Personalisation? What do we wish for? What do we fear? What has worked / not worked in implementing SDS with children so far? A chance to share thoughts on the SDS journey and to consider the challenges and opportunities that it brings. Contributor: Keys to Inclusion

1. Self Directed Support for children
and families – getting ready for
change
Shirley Cusack and Fran Swift
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2. Welcome
Keys to Inclusion –
Working to promote and develop personalised,
inclusive and self directed support for children
and families
with 'In Control Scotland'
Projects under 'Changing Support; Changing
Lives'
'Taking the First Steps' pilots with families
'Progress for Providers' self assessment for
providers
With Fran – founder members of family led
support project

3. Points for discussion
Issues around SDS and Personalisation
What do we wish for? What do we fear?
What has worked / not worked in implementing
SDS with children so far?
Thoughts on the SDS journey - challenges and
opportunities.

4. Background
Disability movement
Changing Lives Report 2006
Christie report, 2011
Children (Scotland) Act – Children and Young Person's
Bill - 'Children in Need'
GIRFEC - SHANARRI
Social care and health integration

5. Specific policy / legislation
Self-Directed Support -
National Strategy for Scotland - 10 year strategy
Social Care (Self-Directed Support) (Scotland) Act
2013
‘Enabling legislation’
General principles of the legislation:
Involvement
Informed choice
Collaboration

6. Vision
The quality of life of people who require care and
support is improved through increased choice and
control over the services they receive.
'putting people at the heart..’

7. What is self-directed support?
• Care and support with choice and control
• Will become the mainstream form of social
care delivery in Scotland, i.e. everyone
eligible for support will be offered it
• “Available to everyone but imposed on no-
one”
• For anyone eligible for support - including
children and families

8. A few different approaches!

10. Where are we now?
 Scottish Government inputs and pilots for local
authorities and providers and user and carer led projects
getting ready for 2014
 Training
 Specific workers appointed
 Joint working
 Reports
 Evaluations

11. Where are families?
• Fran and Antony
• Family experience
• Antony's story
• What works / does not work

12. Antony's story

13. Where are you?
Issues? Wishes? Fears?
In 2020 - What would you like to be happening for
children and families?
What role would you like to have – what steps are
needed now to get there?

14. Opportunities and challenges
Proactive providers are working on
Changing the way staff work with families and with
each other – with person centred thinking;
One Page Profiles
Matching staff and young people with people they
want to be with rather than staff we want them to be
with
Beginning a process of change

15. What people like and
What’s important to admire about me…
me...to me…
How best to support me…

16. What is the role of social work?
As the focus moves to outcomes instead of outputs
• Changes to assessment
• Changes to the way budgets are calculated
• People will be told the value of their budget
• 4 options for budgets (DP, ISF, LA or mix)
• Culture change

17. What needs to happen now?
Information and support?
Link to GIRFEC and SHANARRI?
Assessment issues?
Co Production?
Working together?
Other issues?

19. Keep in touch!
Keys to Inclusion
The Melting Pot,
5 Rose Street,
Edinburgh
shirley@keystoinclusion.co.uk
www.keystoinclusion.co.uk
07723408764