Preparing for Adulthood: Person-centred Planning Tools

Introduction to Person-centred Planning

In 2020, NDTi refreshed a suite of person-centred planning materials as part of our delivery of the Preparing for Adulthood programme.

Person-centred Planning: Background & Approach

This article was written by Linda Jordan for Special Needs Jungle to summarise the background and approach of person-centred planning.

Planning My Future Life

A person-centred planning booklet, specifically designed to find out what is important to a young person and the support they need.

Additional Helpful Tools

This booklet is full of additional helpful tools that support the main Planning My Future Life resource.

Vocational Profile

This resource is a discovery document that is specifically related to work and supporting someone to find a job.

Coping Strategies

A person-centred planning tool to help children & young people to express their anxieties and concerns.

Like & Admire

This tools helps to ask about the person’s positive qualities, respecting and affirming their individuality and appreciating how they contribute to the communities they are a part of.

Relationship Map

We can learn about and record the important people in someone's life by having conversations and using the Relationship Map.

Important To / Important For

Working in a person-centred way requires that we see the person first – what matters to them, not just what the matter is with them.

Working / Not Working

This tool helps people to sort out what is working and what is not working from different perspectives and to work out ways to build on what is working and to reduce or stop the things that aren’t working.

My Outcomes

Using My Outcomes is part of an approach that enables us to genuinely find out what is important to a young person now and for their future.

One Page Profile

A tool to help those who support young people to better understand what matters to them, what they are good at and how to provide great support.

What Matters Island

This template is designed to help young people talk with their family, carers and any paid supporters to coproduce a summary Preparing for Adulthood plan.

Inclusion Web

The Inclusion Web builds on the Relationship Map tool.

Good Day / Bad Day

This tool helps with understanding what is important to and for people, to have the life that they want.

Perfect Week

This tool helps us to see what different aspects of living make up a really great week for a person.

Decision Making Profile

The decision-making profile creates a clear picture about how a person makes a decision and how they want to be supported in decision-making.

Communication Passport

This is a helpful tool and is essential to use when people don’t use many words to speak.

Matching Support

The matching support tool is a simple way to record what is needed to create the best match.

Presence to Contribution

This tool is a way of having a conversation with someone to find ways to enable them to be part of their community.

Pathways To Getting A Life

The Getting a Life Programme was a three year government funded project which included 400 hundred young people across England. The young people and their families co-produced the pathways which then became embedded in the 2014 Children and Families Act as the Preparing for Adulthood pathways.