PCP
Person Centred Planning
Definition
The government set out its strategy for services for people with learning disabilities in a white paper, ‘Valuing People’, published in 2001. It introduces the concept of Person Centred Planning (PCP) as:
“a process for continual listening and learning, focusing on what is important to someone now and in the future, and acting upon this in alliance with their family and friends.”
Person Centred Planning provides the basis for, and promotes, ‘ways of commissioning, providing and organising services rooted in listening to what people want.’It is based on principles of rights, independence, choice and inclusion.
Policies and legislation
- Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century
- Care Standards Act 2000
- Social Care Green Paper – Independence, Well-being and Choice: Our Vision for the Future of Social Care for Adults in England
Useful links
- Adult placements and person centred approaches – Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
- CHANGE – the leading national equal rights organisation led by disabled people
- Mencap – the voice of learning disability, valuing and supporting people with a learning disability and their families and carers.
- People First – An organisation run by and for people with learning disabilities to raise awareness of, and campaign for, the rights of people with learning disabilities, and to support self advocacy groups across the country.
Association of Social Care Communicators 