Self-directed support: improvement plan 2023 to 2027
Plan for all those with a role in ensuring people experience high quality social care in line with the principles and values of the Self Directed Support (SDS) Act 2013. The Plan identifies four outcome areas reflecting where improvements in how SDS is delivered are most needed.
Rationale for selecting priorities
The Consultation, using responses from around a hundred individuals and organisations, initially led to the collection of around eighty discrete activities proposed for inclusion in this Plan. A number of workshops and discussions held by National SDS Collaboration members has led to the consensus that to be deliverable and manageable within existing resource and capacity constraints, this list of activities needed to be reduced and prioritised.
The proposed table of themes and activities also reflect the intention to invest in supported people, SDS systems and in the development and sharing of SDS good practice and tools supporting increased flexibility, choice and control.
Selected for prioritisation are those themes and activities which can[7]:
- contribute to a direct impact for supported people.
- build on, enhance or find synergies with existing work of value.
- align with Scottish Ministers/COSLA social care support priorities (see Joint Statement of Intent).
- align with consultation responses gathered in advance of the Plan, and recommendations from, the Feeley Report and the My Support, My Choice report.
Contact
Email: ascas@gov.scot
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