What is Families Leading Planning
When, for whatever reason, people are not able to lead the Person Centred Plan for themselves, family members are in a great position to develop a plan with and for their family member. If a family member is strongly involved in Person Centred Planning with and on behalf of their relative we call this Families Leading Planning.
What is Families Leading Planning UK
We are a ‘family-led’ independent, national organisation based in Oxfordshire. We deliver consultancy and development training around Person Centred Planning and its implementation in the context of people with learning disabilities and their families to help them work towards a lifestyle of their choosing, through accessing their rights, choice, independence and inclusion whilst still ensuring that their ‘assessed needs’ are fully met.
It enables families to share what they are learning about Person Centred Planning with each other both locally and nationally as well as offering a platform to share their learning and experiences with a wider audience as we recognise that being able to live inclusive and valued lifestyles involves so much more than that which can be provided by families and services alone
Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century (Department of Health 2001) has a major part to play in our foundation for it places people with learning disabilities in the context of their families. Families Leading Planning UK builds on this concept to ensure that people with learning disabilities and their families get a ‘better deal’ beyond 2006!
We welcome the significant power-shift from the historical process of planning for people with learning disabilities to planning with them and their families to bringing about positive changes in their lives
Our aims:
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To ensure that person centred planning becomes the norm when planning with people with learning disabilities and their families;
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To put what we have learned from planning in this way into building capacity for organisational, system and social change;
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To help society understand, recognise and celebrate the work families do on behalf of their sons and daughters to enhance the ‘life-chances’ of their children;
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To celebrate how person centred planning can contribute to people with learning disabilities and their families being valued as equal citizens in our society.
