Books

Supporting Young People with Disabilities through the Transition to Adulthood. By Suzie Franklin and Helen Sanderson. Foreword by Nicola Gitsham.

This book demonstrates very clearly how the personalisation of support and services works in practice. The authors describe how Jennie, a young person with autism and learning disabilities, was supported through the transition from school to living independently using simple, evidence-based person-centred practices and a circle of support.

Review by Kath Bromfield (Parent Forum Chair, Rochdale)

Review by Lesley Waugh (National Brokerage Co-ordinator, The National Autistic Society)

Review by Charlotte Moore, author of George and Sam – Autism in the Family

Review by Autism Eye, Issue 12, Winter 2013

Review by Children and Young People Now, Feb 2014

Review by Children and Young People Now, March 2014

Format 235 x 180mm, 144 pages, Perfect bound paperback. By Helen Sanderson and Maye Taylor.

Celebrating Families is a practical guide for parents. It’s all about appreciating each individual in your family and discovering how they prefer to negotiate their path through life; ensuring that what is important to all members of your family (including you, the parent) is met as fully as possible. It contains lots of stories about how families have used person-centred thinking and planning.

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Format: 205x145mm, 94 pages, Perfect bound paperback. By Helen Bowers, Gill Bailey, Helen Sanderson, Lorna Esterbrook and Alison Macadam

Older people want real choices, and the freedom to choose the best possible lifestyle for themselves. This book shares how person-centred thinking can be used with older people to help achieve this. The powerful stories and examples shared in this book will influence the way you think and act, whether you are a professional, an older person, a family member or a policy maker.

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This book demonstrates the benefits of using one-page profiles through a number of stories that show how profiles can support person-centred approaches with individual children, curriculum development, school development plans and staff performance management.

How it Works in Practice. By Helen Sanderson and Gill Bailey with Lisa Martin.

Dispelling the myths about how personalisation works for people with dementia living in care homes, this book demonstrates how to introduce Individual Service Funds (ISFs), what works and what doesn’t, and how to deal with difficulties and setbacks.

Individual Service Funds are one way that people living with dementia can have a personal budget. The authors explain how they went about introducing the principles of ISFs to people living with dementia in a large care home in Stockport, without using any additional funding. They describe the person-centred practices used and the involvement of the council, commissioners, staff and families. Through clear and detailed stories and examples, they demonstrate the dramatic approach to quality of life for people with dementia the approach can deliver. There is a strong emphasis on managerial and organisational issues, including getting staff ‘on board’, providing adequate support, budgeting, building effective partnerships and implementing change.

Providing helpful insights and examples for good practice, this book is essential reading for all those involved in providing personalised care for people with dementia living in care homes, including care staff, care home managers, local authority commissioners, service providers and policy makers.

A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation Through Effective Teamwork. By Helen Sanderson and Mary Beth Lepkowsky.

Person-Centred Teams provides much-needed guidance on person-centred working following the roll-out of personalisation and personal budgets across health and social care.

In order to deliver personalisation, you need to work with staff in person-centred ways. Straightforward and easy to read, this practical guide describes how to do this by developing a person-centred team using person-centred practices. The authors outline their model for developing a team, and how information is recorded in a person-centred team plan. They explain:

• Purpose – how to clarify a team’s purpose
• People – what managers need to know about each team member, and how one-page profiles can help
• Performance – how to clarify service users’ expectations of a team’s services, and assess whether or not these are being met
• Process – how person-centred practices can aid teamwork and help your team deliver
• Progress – how to continuously improve teamwork and performance

Each section features clear illustrations and examples from teams to enable you to develop a person-centred team plan and work together in person-centred ways.

This guide is essential reading for service providers, managers, practitioners and students in the health and social care fields, as well as person-centred planning coordinators and user-led organisations.

Here is a review of this publication.

Personalisation means people, their families and carers having choice and control over their support on a day-to-day basis. To deliver personalised services, professionals and carers need to do more than just hand over financial control; they need to know what is important to a person, the best way to support them, how they communicate and how they make decisions.

This book will show how to deliver personalisation through simple, effective and evidence-based person-centred practice that changes people’s lives and helps them achieve the outcomes they want. It covers why person-centred practice is relevant to the personalisation agenda and what person-centred thinking and person-centred reviews are, introducing the tools that can help you carry them out. It also explores the relationship between person-centred plans and support plans, and how person-centred practice can be used in the journey of support through adulthood – from the prevention or management of long-term health conditions to reablement, recovery, and support in old age and at the end of life. There is also a chapter on taking a person-centred approach to risk.

This is an essential guide for all staff in health and social care including service providers, managers, practitioners and students.

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Format: 175 x 245mm, 272 pages, Perfect bound paperback. Edited by Carl Poll, Jo Kennedy and Helen Sanderson.

This is a book about how the most isolated people in society can not just become part of their wider community, but make important contributions to it. This book describes practical approaches to unlocking this vast potential for increasing social capital.

By Helen Sanderson and Robin Miller

The Individual Service Funds Handbook is the definitive guide to one of the most innovative forms of personal budget in health and social care.

It gives a clear explanation of what Individual Service Funds (ISFs) are and how to use them effectively, and includes all the information you need in order to implement them in your organisation. The Handbook spans a range of settings, including a dementia care home, supported living and residential homes for adults with learning disabilities, and people who use mental health services. It also sets out guidelines and templates which can be used when implementing ISFs, addressing key practical concerns, including: how to put together effective support plans, how to ensure that ISFs are delivered in a person-centred way, how to overcome organisational complexities in implementation, and supporting managers.

A one-stop resource for anyone wanting to understand the potential of ISFs, the Handbook is required reading for service providers, commissioners, and those engaged in person-centred practice and personalisation, including user-led organisations.

By Helen Sanderson and Gill Bailey

Personalisation builds on person-centred care to focus on how people with dementia can have more choice and control over decisions affecting them, and be supported to be part of their community.

This practical guide explains how to deliver personalised services and support people with dementia through simple, evidence-based person-centred practices. The authors clearly explain personalisation and current person-centred thinking and practice, providing many vivid examples of how it has been achieved in community as well as residential care settings.

Strategies and Tools for Managing Change in Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector. By Stephen Stirk and Helen Sanderson

Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that give people using social care and health services the freedom to plan their future, with a personal budget and the right to commission personalised services.

Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised services. Key issues covered include attending to the vision, strategy and business planning of the organisation, as well as organisational processes, culture and managing changes. Drawing on the pioneering work of major social care charity United Response, the authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques to enable organisations within health, social care and the third sector to use person-centred thinking tools and approaches to move towards becoming person-centred organisations.

This is an essential guide for managers and leaders within private, statutory and voluntary organisations.

Review by Pete Feldon, Freelance Workforce Development Consultant.

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