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A One day course for front line support workers

This course aims to deliver basic awareness training on the introduction of Individual Budgets to front line staff working with all adults. These staff will have duties that involve the assessment of eligible adults to apply for and manage their Individual Budgets. Those adults that will be eligible for the scheme will include older people and disabled people which will include people with learning disabilities, people with physical or sensory disabilities and people with mental health needs. The main idea behind Individual Budgets is to put the person who is supported, or given services, in control of deciding what support is required.

The course will examine how this scheme differs in relation to Direct Payments and the Independent Living Fund but will explain how these may be applicable within the whole Individual Budgets system. There will be the opportunity to consolidate learning through practice scenarios.

This course is designed to provide those key staff with the basic knowledge that they would need in order to work within the guidelines of the new scheme which is currently coming to the end of its nationally piloted period where 13 Local Authorities were involved.

By the end of this course participants should be able to:

• Identify the key provisions in the new scheme and apply them directly to their professional responsibilities.
• Help to put people at the centre of the decision making process
• Understand how to promote the flexibility of the scheme in order for people to gain the right support they want and how to organise it from a broker, an advocate, family or friends.
• Understand  the training and the role of the Broker in influencing change      
• Understand the different income streams that can help tailor support from different agencies.
• Understand the assessment processes involved and the role of the care manager/social worker

Course content:

• Historical influences to shaping of Individual budgets
• Policy guidance
• Our health, our care, our say. (DOH 2006)
• Improving the Life Chances of Disabled people. (Strategy Unit, Jaguar 2005)
• Opportunity Age. (Department for Work and Pensions, March 2005
• Independence, Well-being and Choice (DOH March 2005)
• Understand different funding streams
• Council-provided Social Care services for adults
• Supported people funding
• Independent Living Fund
• Disabled Facilities Grant
• Integrated Community Equipment Services
• Access to Work
• Understand whether Individual Budgets affect who comes forward for services and what they might get
• Understand what changes Individual budgets would mean for staff
• Understand how to manage the process of assessment, agreeing eligibility, maintenance, support and review of service provision
• Planning with people and what it means. How to use the plan to influence change to the person life
• Direct Payments - what it is, the legal definition and use of direct payments. The process, implement and record keepings. Do's and don'ts of using a direct payments
• Personalisation Agenda - the change to social care and the white paper on putting people first - 2011 implementation
• Person Centred Planning - Planning with people and what it means. How to use the plan to influence change to the person life
• Support plans - What needs to be in a support plan. The difference with support plans and care plans.
• Moving Personal Care Plans into support plans - the way that this can be done and the different approach
• In control - The process and the methodology to make it effective.

Case studies to facilitate learning

Contact TCR for further information and quote price code: G