Person Centred Planning
Person Centred Planning
Person Centred Planning
What is person-centred planning?
Person-centred planning involves putting the child or young person at the centre of meetings and discussions about support they receive. It makes sure the child or young person has their views respected and offers them the space or opportunity to be involved in the decision-making processes around the support available to help them thrive.
Person-centred planning tools can be used to directly involve a child or young person in meetings, or to gain their views beforehand to be shared by a chosen adult in a meeting.
In the video at the bottom of this page, Stacey a nursery SENCO, explains how they hold person centred meetings for children moving to school.
The Person Centred Planning Toolkit can be downloaded here or by using the button below.
The below approaches from the Person Centred Planning Toolkit have been trialed by Bury Educational Psychology Service with educational settings in Bury, providing the following feedback. This may help guide your selection of tools to use.
MAPS[(Map Action Planning System)
This resource can be used to help a child or young person take part in a meeting to discuss how they can be best supported. One secondary school in Bury liked the visual nature of this meeting, as everyone’s ideas are written down on large pieces of paper/ flipchart. This tool provides a clear structure to the meeting and allows the child or young person to say as much or little as they like.
4+1
The 4+1 approach is best suited to review meetings. It explores what has already been done, what has been learnt, what has worked, and what is still a concern, before next steps are identified. School and nursery settings in Bury liked the ‘calm and constructive’ nature of this approach and how it keeps ‘teachers and parent/carers together’, when thinking about how best to support a child or young person.
What we like and admire about…
This approach involves creating a poster about a young person, including what key adults in the child or young person’s life like and admire about them. One nursery said that this tool provided a ‘positive focus to discuss at the first meeting’ and it helps to provide feedback to a child or young person about their positive qualities.
Good day/bad day
Good day/bad day can be used to explore a child or young person’s experiences of school or college. The child or young person can write, draw or discuss what would make a good or bad day, including who would be there, what they would learn about, where in school they would be, etc. This resource can be used to share the child or young person’s views in meetings and identify how support can be put in place to ensure they have a ‘good day’ more often.
One page profile
One-page profiles can be used to create an overview of a child or young person’s strengths, needs and preferences. It helps to succinctly and effectively communicate how they can be best supported. One school in Bury commented, this is ‘a good way of sharing information with staff about a pupil’. Another school shared how they found it helpful to create the one-page profile with the young person, to make sure their views were included, and the importance of updating them regularly.
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Stacey a nursery SENCO, explains how they hold person centred meetings for children moving to school.