Personalised Support

People need support and assistance that respects who they really are and helps them develop and become an active citizen.

Article: 06.03.25 Fixing Social Care Funding More money will help, but it is not enough, the whole social care system needs to change.
Article: 05.03.25 One Size Does Not Fit All - CQC Inflexibility The registration process for care does not promote good quality personalised support
Paper: 10.09.24 Care (Education) & Treatment Reviews and Dynamic Support Registers Practical advice from families can ensure people with learning disabilities or autism avoid institutional care.
Article: 13.02.24 Living Well with Dementia Liz Leach Murphy has written two guides to living well with Dementia and shares key findings from her research.
Film: 26.01.24 Ross: It's My Life iDirect support Ross to live his own life in his community.
Film: 25.01.24 William: It's My Life iDirect support William to live his own life in his community.
Film: 24.01.24 Kerry-Ann: It's My Life iDirect support Kerry-Ann to live her own life in her community.
Handbook: 10.01.24 How to Support Everyday Citizenship How to share the book Everyday Citizenship.
Article: 14.12.23 Integrated Personal Budgets Integrated Personal Budgets bring together different resources to help people take control of all their supports.
Paper: 18.09.23 UNIC Transferability Study The final UNIC report explores how to build and sustain personal budgets reforms and use EU structures.
Paper: 27.08.23 Redesigning the NDIS A vision for reforming the NDIS as a regenerative system of support co-designed with people with disabilities.
Paper: 28.02.23 This Is How I Manage This is a Finnish tool, available here in English, to help people develop their own support plan.
Project: 09.08.22 UNIC Project EU funded project to support the development of personal budgets across Europe
Slide: 25.07.22 The Power of Freedom An overview of recent developments for self-directed support in New Zealand including important web technology.
Paper: 25.07.22 European Guidelines on Deinstitutionalisation Good practice guide on the transition from Institutional to Community-based Care.
Paper: 25.07.22 Mapping Self-Directed Support in Europe A survey of Self-Directed Support systems in Europe in 2019 produced by the SKILLS project.
Webinar: 23.06.22 Self Direction in Finland Petra Rantamäki provides an overview of the development of self-directed support in Finland.
Webinar: 23.06.22 European Perspectives on Self-Directed Support Support Girona hosted a seminar to review global and European developments in self-directed support.
Film: 05.05.22 Being Hatty Hatty has paranoid schizophrenia and is 33 years old, this is her story of life now with personalised support.
Paper: 03.03.22 Good Practice in Personal Budgets UNIC project describes global best practice in Personal Budgets and user-centred funding models.
Paper: 03.03.22 European Guide on Personal Budgets The UNIC Project guide to EU countries for Long Term Care and Support based on human rights.
Webinar: 07.05.21 A New Way Home John Dalrymple and Frances Brown speak about their work with Radical Visions in Scotland and their guide A New Way Home.
Paper: 06.09.20 iDirect Citizenship Review 2019 iDirect provides individualised support to support people with learning disabilities to be full citizens.
Article: 06.12.17 NHS Must Get Behind Personalised Support Simon Duffy explains why the NHS must embrace personalised support for people with disabilities and complex needs
Paper: 04.12.17 A New Way Home Frances Brown and John Dalrymple provide practical guidance on a personalised approach to leaving institutions.
Paper: 02.10.17 Progress on Personalised Support This report builds on an international survey of support organisations to develop a model of personalised support.
Paper: 31.10.16 Citizenship: A Guide for Providers of Support Sam Sly and Bob Tindall have written a new guide for providers of support working to develop true citizenship for all.
Project: 04.01.16 Personalised Support Flexible approaches to support and contracting in health and social care services.
Paper: 19.11.14 Better Lives An Evaluation of the Choice Support Personalisation Programme for Adults with Learning Difficulties in Southwark.
Inspiration: 15.07.10 Individual Service Design Individual service design is the creative development of high quality supports to achieve full and active…
Paper: 04.07.10 Personalised Support A report describing how to provide support to people with the most complex needs or challenging behaviour.
Slide: 05.06.10 Individual Service Design Slides exploring how to create individual service designs.
Inspiration: 25.02.10 Personalised Support Personalised Support is a system for providing support to people with complex and challenging needs to live their own…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Co-Production Coproduction is the name for the process by which improved outcomes are produced by the collaboration of different…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Personalised Support Personalised Support is a system for designing and organising around the needs of the individual.
Graphic: 01.08.09 Personal Plan Plans should be personal - and they should integrate care, support, education or whatever else people need to plan for.
Graphic: 01.08.09 Decision-Making in Health The focus for decision-making in healthcare needs to change depending upon the circumstances and the level of…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Individual Service Fund (ISF) An Individual Service Fund is a useful way in which resources can be used flexibly to achieve personalised support.
Graphic: 01.08.09 Creativity in Design Creativity in design requires (a) positive imagination (b) the ability to look outward for possibilities (c) focus on…