A Positive Approach to Risk & Personalisation: A Framework

A framework for ensuring service users can exercise their right to control their support package while making sure adequate safeguarding measures are in place, has been developed by Personalisation and Adult Safeguarding leads on behalf of the West Midlands JIP, ADASS West Midlands and NHS West Midlands.

A Positive Approach to Risk & Personalisation: A Framework, details the steps health and local authorities can take to prevent an over cautious approach to personalisation of care, by encouraging a more positive approach to risk taking.

With the pace of personalisation picking up, the JIP and its partners want to ensure the most vulnerable members of society are not left behind. The framework shows how this can be done by sharing risk between the service user, their family, carers, professional care staff, third parties and the Council. 

The goal is to manage risks in a way that improves the quality of life and promotes independence of service users, by identifying potential risks and putting systems in place to manage them. 

The publication includes examples of good practice and a self assessment tool for authorities to use as a starting point for understanding their current position.

The Framework will be available for download from the Improvement and Effeiciency West Midlands website (insert link) in a few weeks, in the meantime contact Sue Williams, telephone: 07824 605 653, email: swilliams@westmidlandsiep.gov.uk.