Every Child’s Support PlanPart 2

We know about ME…what next?

Putting together a Support Plan

• Getting the best support• ‘What is working’ and ‘What isn’t working’

• Every Child Matters Outcomes• Thinking about Risk• Creative uses of your Individual Budget

Getting the best support

• Who do you want to be supported by….– What do they need to know about?– Who are they?

Write a person specification for the person or people who you want to give you the support you…

Like cold water, good swimmer, energetic, happy to learn new things, good at travelling, prompt, happy to put on a cold and wet wetsuit day-after-day

A fun way to explore this can be to design an Advert

Getting the support you need

Trainer to insert words, photos and pictures that make up an advertfor a ‘Support Worker

What is working?What is not working?

What is working? What is not working?

I really like quiet time in the classroom when we are all working really hard

Break time is really difficult when every one is running around – it gives me a headache

My taxi driver plays great music in the car in the morning

I don’t like getting out of the taxi

Think of a child or young person you knowWhat is working for them in their life?

What is not working for them?

What is working?

Things to be included within this section will be:

- Services being used by the child and family like playgroups, family support services (mainstream / free services)

- Other funding currently being accessed by the family for the child which has been offered due to the child’s specific support needs

Similarly these may also appear in ‘what’s not working’ if services are failing or eligible funding is not being accessed

What is not working?

• This is what the support will be doing…learning from the Personal Profile…listening to what the child or young person are saying….tackling what is not working (taking action)

• ‘What is not working’ identifies the outcomes of the support plan (every action has an outcome)

Every Child Matters

Make a positive contribution

Be Healthy

Stay SafeEnjoy and Achieve

Achieve Economic Well-being

Outcomes and ME

IMPORTANT – Don’t forget!

These outcomes are about ME, my life, my home and those closest to ME!

The Outcomes of a Support Plan

• Take a sheet of paper and working with your partner look at the work you have done this morning

• Under the 5 headings of the ECM Outcomes begin to think about the actions which will be taken by the child / young person and those supporting them and then what the outcomes of these actions will be….list these

An Example

• What’s not working?My diet, I’ve put on lots of weight and

even my breathing is starting to be difficult

• This will mean that… One outcome of my support plan is that

I loose a bit of weight and take some exercise(Be Healthy)

Important – we are not talking about support at this point!

Thinking about the ‘R’ word

What could go wrong? (Risks)

What can we do to minimise this making me unhappy, unsafe or getting hurt?

Draw up a simply table and spend 10 minutes looking at these titles…

how would you fill this in for the child or young person you have been thinking about

Stay Safe!

Using my Individual Budget(as creatively as

possible)Looking at the outcomes and what you know form the work you have done beginning to think as creatively as you can about the different ways you could use the individual budget

Example – A Gym membershipYou have £4000 over a year to spend as an Individual

Budget

Every Child’s Support Plan

• How I will use my budget to get the outcomes important for me?

• Who will support me?

• The support plan clearly evidences what the Every Child Matters outcomes mean for ME

What next?

• There is a PowerPoint template

• Please use / edit / try out

• These two elements – the Personal Profile and the Support Plan will be key to ensuring the child or young person makes good use of their IB and gets the best support possible

Every Child’s Support Plan