C-Change Scotland share their experience of applying creative person-centred planning approaches. Carr Gomm’s ‘Community Contacts’ works in partnership across a spectrum of social care organisations. It aims to raise awareness of SDS in Argyll and Bute and support people to make informed choices. Volunteers form part of the new team and ‘walk alongside’ prospective users of SDS, helping to make the right choices at the right time. Contributed by: CCPS

1. SDS Quiz
Providers and Personalisation

2. What’s this?
• The slides that follow have some
questions on them.
• You have 3 cards (A,B and C).
• Raise your card to vote!

3. What are the origins of Self-
directed Support?
a) Local authorities were the first to
think of SDS
b) Disabled people who were part of
the Independent Living Movement
c) Tescos invented the idea as part of
their clubcard scheme

4. How long is the SDS Strategy?
a) A 3 year strategy with time for
implementation
b) As long as a piece of string
c) It is a 10 year strategy - recognition
that change takes time

5. The principles of the SDS Act are…
a) Information, co-operation and
control
b) Involvement, informed choice and
collaboration.
c) Indecision, confusion and chaos

6. “XXXXX are cash payments given to service
users in lieu of community care services they
have been assessed as needing, and are
intended to give users greater choice in their
care. The payment must be sufficient to
enable the service user to purchase services
to meet their needs.”
• A) Personalisation
• B) Direct Payments
• C) Self- Directed Support

7. “The fundamental principles of XXXXXX
are choice and control”
Is it…
• A) Personalisation
• B) Direct Payments
• C) Self- Directed Support

8. “The way in which services are
tailored to meet the needs and
preferences of citizens.”
• A) Personalisation
• B) Direct Payments
• C) Self- Directed Support

9. Direct Payments can be used to pay for….
Is it…
• A) Sky TV and trip to Blackpool
• B) Drink, drugs and rock and roll
• C) Support to meet the person’s
individual outcomes.

10. Option 2 allows a person to…
a) Hand over full control and choice to the
local authority.
b) Use their individual budget to relocate to
Spain.
c) Have control of which provider delivers
their support (and ask for the budget to
be held by a third party.)

11. …
Take a prize and pass
along!