Care and support planning is undertaken in full consultation with residents along with their professional and personal support network.
Plans are regularly reviewed and each resident has an allocated support worker team with whom their care and support reviews are undertaken. This approach ensures continuity of information and progress is better mapped by a staff team with greater awareness of the individual.
As part of the care and support planning, the team works with residents to develop clear pathways to recovery with a focus on social inclusion.
Definition of Social Inclusion: A programme of measures to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities to learn, to work, to be involved with their community and to have a voice on decisions that affect them.
Social Inclusion
High Oaks takes seriously the importance of promoting positive social inclusion. These are some of the key factors that we consider:
1. Whether the resident wishes to be included socially – assumptions must not be made.
2. Whether there are any aspects of the residents’ behaviours or appearance that could make them a target for bullying if they were accessing community facilities alone.
3. If there are identified risks for targeting residents then High Oaks staff must do everything possible to reduce the risk.
Positive social inclusion, when effectively managed, will not only enhance the quality of the life of the people supported by High Oaks – but will add to the general community wellbeing as well.
There are some great examples of community projects and the following link has an executive summary of a final report on a 3 year project called GROWING TOGETHER – Promoting Social Inclusion, Health & Wellbeing for Vulnerable Adults through the use of Horticulture and Gardening: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ccfr/growing_together/ExecSummaryGT.pdf
Social Inclusion Welfare Meeting (SIW meeting)
Where there are concerns about a resident’s social inclusion, an SIW meeting will be called. This term has been developed by our consultancy team GINARE CONSULTING and relates to a meeting specifically called to discuss matters of a resident’s welfare, particularly where there is the possibility of them being the subject of, or the target for, bullying and harassment.
Anyone at High Oaks can action an SIW but, as in any event, there must be clear documentation that underpins the concerns that surround the limitation of the activity of social inclusion. The following is the minimum amount of information that we would expect to be collected:
1. Behaviours already apparent and causing concern.
2. New behaviours that carry a risk of causing concern and which require discussion.
3. Any incidents which have already occurred.
4. Any new issues which add to the risk profile of the activity about which the SIW meeting is being held.
PDF Of care & support plan example