1.3 Analyse the effect of legislation and policy on person centred practice
Service users have clearly stated a preference to the social model approach to care and the government has responded by introducing various policies and legislations to support person-centred practice. The involvement of individuals, and where appropriate their carers and families, in assessment of their needs and aspirations and their options for meeting them has been a core principle of social care policy for at least the last 20 years, as reflected in the following documents;
Valuing People (Department of Health, 2001)
The above was the first Government white paper on learning disabilities in England for 30 years. It made direct payments available to more people with learning disability and was first paper where we officially come across the term ‘person centred planning’ . It stresses the important role that the Person Centred Planning can play in helping people with learning difficulties take charge of their own lives. The Guidance (Department of Health, 2002) stressed that the Person Centred Planning is not a professional activity done to people; instead people themselves and their friends and family, families or others must lead it. However, professional services still have enormous role to play in responding in a more person centred way to people with learning …show more content…
This was done through questionnaires and surveys, interviews and listening events. This led to the publication of the White Paper ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Say: a new direction for community services’ which explained in detail the improvements the Government would make, why it feels these changes are necessary and the steps it was taking to make sure they happen, backed up by research figures and