Progress for Providers: Checking your progress in using person centred approaches (managers)

Progress for Providers: Checking your progress in using person centred approaches (managers) is a self-assessment tool for managers to use individually and with their teams. It accompanies the original Progress for Providers – checking your progress in delivering personalised services (2010), and was developed following feedback from managers and commissioners asking for more detail on how managers can use person-centred approaches with individuals receiving support, and with their teams.

Using person-centred thinking and approaches helps the people you support to have more choice and control in their lives, and for staff to provide the best support they can in ways that reflect what is important to each  person. Working in this way is not about doing more, but doing things differently. In difficult economic times, our experience is that implementing person-centred thinking and approaches makes it more likely that people will want to buy your services, and that good staff will stay with you.