Person Centred Transition Reviews Pilot Project 20052006

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Person Centred Transition Reviews Pilot Project
2005-2006

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What is the Pilot?

• Nationwide Pilot Project funded by Dept
• Of Health and Dept of Education Skill
• To change transition reviews and planning,
• making sure the young person is at the
• centre of the process.

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How Southampton took part.

• A leadership group was formed to plan how we
• wanted to take things forward in Southampton.
• Attended regional presentations and made a
• Commitment for Pete Claire to take part in
• The training and facilitate person centred
• Transition review meetings for two young
• people.

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What this involved

• 9 days training, planning reflection with
  regional group.
• Liaison with Ridgeway House School and Rosewood
  School.
• Visited two young people and their families to
  explain the pilot.
• Visited the two young people at their school
• Supported the school staff to pre-plan for the
  meeting.
• Gathered feedback from people who attended.

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What Happens in a Person Centred Transition Review

• The Young person is always there at the beginning
  of the meeting and stays for as long as they
  want.
• The room is set up in an informal way and
  refreshments are available, background music is
  played.
• Flip charts are used to write down and record all
  information during the meeting.
• The meetings were facilitated by Pete/Claire, not
  chaired by the Head Teacher.
• Everybody is encouraged to contribute equally.

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Meeting Agenda

• People at the meeting

• What we like admire
• about.

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• Whats important to
• now.

• Whats important to
• for the future.

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• What support
• needs to stay healthy
• safe.

• Questions to ask
• issues to resolve.

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Whats Working well Whats not working
well

• Young Persons View
• Familys View
• Schools View
• Others View

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• Action Plan
• What By Whom By When

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What People Said

• Things that people who came thought were good.
• Fantastic, child focussed.
• Time consuming but still great
• More person centred across all aspects of her
  life.
• Young person was very involved, from planning it
  down
• to supervising the actual proceedings!
• Great, really felt it was her meeting.
• Everyones contribution was valued equally.
• Focussed on her whole life and not just her
  school life.
• Much more interactive, more relaxed and all
  participants
• were involved.

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What People Said

• Things that people felt need addressing
• Length of the meeting
• Very good but very time consuming.
• Needs more space than usual
• Too many people could be threatening for the
  pupil.
• Future meetings
• All people that responded stated that they would
• like a person centred review next time.
• Some said they like this format for all young
  people in
• transition.

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Davids Story

• My name is David and I was chosen by my school in
  Southampton, to take part in the
• national pilot for person centred transition
  reviews in schools.
• Claire and Pete whose job it is to make sure that
  I am fully involved in my review
• meeting, came to see me and my Mum and sister at
  my home in the summer of 2005.
• Pete and Claire also came to see me at School
  with my teacher and friends.

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Davids Story

• They talked with me about what I wanted to happen
  in my
• meeting and I decided that I would like to start
  off by
• blowing my trumpet which I was learning to play
  in school,
• and play a video called The Rock Challenge
  which
• showed me taking part in a presentation with my
  school.
• I also had some of my art work on display and
  used
• pictures of activities I enjoy for me to stick on
  the flip charts
• on the wall.
• One of the actions from my year 9 review was for
  Mum to
• take me to see my doctor after I told everyone
  that my feet
• hurt if I walked too far.

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Davids Story

• On 20th April Pete and Claire invited me and my
  mum to the South East
• Regional Celebration Day at The Sustainability
  Centre.
• I had to come in a wheelchair because after
  seeing my doctor I was
• referred to a consultant who advised surgery to
  correct a problem with my
• foot.

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Davids Story
At lunchtime we watched the dogs rounding up the
sheep. One of the dogs accidentally jumped onto
my lap which gave me a shock. We then watched a
lamb being fed.
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Davids Story
In October 2006 I had my Year 10 review which was
again facilitated by Pete Claire. We started
with what everyone liked and admired about me
which had written up at my last meeting. It was
different this time as we were thinking more
about what would be available when I leave
School. We listed all the things that were
important to me for the future under the
following headings Self Determination Direction M
oney Home Support Community Life
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Davids Story

• I invited two of my friends into the meeting at
  this point to help me decide which were the most
  important subjects to talk about, and these were
  highlighted by stickers which we called dot
  voting.
• At the end of the meeting Pete and Claire drew up
  an action plan and discussed the points that had
  the most dots around it first. Each action was
  given a date and the name of the person who was
  responsible for seeing that it was carried out.
• I would like to go to college when I leave school
  and have also thought about becoming a nurse

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Davids Story

• In December I was invited to
• give a talk at a person
• centred planning conference
• at The Novotel at Southampton
• in front of 120 people.
• Pete asked me a few questions
• about what was different at my
• review meetings, and then I
• interviewed my head teacher
• about what she liked about the
• meeting

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Davids Story

• I think it would be good if more young people
  in Southampton could be offered this style of
  meeting.
• Pete and Claire are meeting with the schools and
  the city council to see what can be done to make
  this happen

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Whats Happening Now

In July we recruited a person centred worker
funded by Childrens Services, Phil Orchard.
(Teacher/Pastor) Based at Choices Advocacy and
line managed by Pete. Concentrating on
developing person centred reviews in schools and
facilitating person centred plans for young
people in transition
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Whats Happening Now

• Meetings with Childrens Services
• Chaired by Jamie Schofield
• (Service Manager-Children with Disabilities)
• Quarterly meetings to raise the profile of PCP in
  Childrens services
• Meetings with Local Education Authority
• Looking at developing person centred reviews in
  schools
• (Two meetings with third planned for November)
• Have been contacting other authorities to find
  out about PC Reviews
• Looking into training resources
• Have recieved good feedback from head teachers
  about PCP and will arrange for Pete and Claire to
  attend Special Heads Conference.

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Whats Happening Now

• All young people in transition at Rosewood School
  will have a person
• centred review this year facilitated by Phil,
  Claire, Mandy or
• Myself. (9 young people).
• Phil has agreed to facilitate some of transition
  reviews for young
• people at Great Oaks School and work with them to
  look at ways of
• overcoming such issues as time constraints and
  staff cover.
• We are meeting with the Head Teacher at Cedar
  School tomorrow