Planning and reviewing your support
Support plan
After the assessment, we will tell the young person if they can receive funded support from adult social care. At this point we will make a plan together. This is called a support plan.
A support plan will include all the information to show how we can help the individual to reach their goals and what support they will need to get there.
The Preparing for Adulthood (PfA) team will work with them to find the right support to do the things the young person wants to do. We will work with the young person and those who support them, to create their support plan. We want the young person to be at the centre of the plan and to hear what is important to them.
The plan might include:
- care and support to do everyday things
- the support they need to continue their education
- the support they need to explore paid or unpaid work opportunities
- help with finances
- taking part in activities to get them out and about
- help with decisions about where they want to live
- relationships or wellbeing advice.
The kinds of support that the plan could include are:
- Help from their friends and family
- support available in the community
- and tech-enabled care (things like apps that can support day to day life)
If someone needs a personal assistant to make the plan work, we may be able to provide the funding to employ a personal assistant. This is called a Direct Payment.
We will also complete a financial assessment when a person attends 18. This could impact on the young person needing to contribute/fund their support needs.
Reviewing your support
Once the support plan has started, we will check how the plan is working.
These checks are called reviews. The reviews help us to update the support plan if anything changes as the young person goes through preparing for adulthood.
We will ask questions such as:
- Is your plan helping you to achieve the things you wanted to?
- Is there anything else you would like to achieve?
- What would you like to change?
Reviews can happen whenever the young person talks to the Preparing for Adulthood (PFA) team – it doesn't always have to be a 'big' meeting. What really matters is that everything is working for the young person and those important to them. There are many ways we can do this.
If there are any big changes for the young person we can complete a new Care Act assessment. This might be when they:
- leave or college or finish a course
- get new skills or confidence
- want to try new things
- want to move home