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Investing in families, planning desirable futures.

What we offer

The Lifecare Charitable Trust offers three key benefits for families and friends who are concerned about the long term future of their disabled or disadvantaged family member or friend.

Lifelong advocacy to assist with planning and decision making in all aspects of life.

Support with financial issues and practical resources.

Innovative programmes of individualised support.

Our Values

Our style of work provides a unique form of advocacy and empowerment for people and has evolved with careful thought over a number of years. The Lifecare Trust plans to continue to gain the strength and = resources to offer effective leadership to individuals and organisations that want to be involved on this journey of social inclusion.
A strong unshifting value base underpins our work.
Inclusion as a broad concept means creating communities where every member belongs and is accepted as a contributing citizen regardless of ability or label. Inclusion thus leads us to live our lives alongside one another despite our differences. We believe that all people have gifts and capabilities and have the right to dream for their own personal aspirations.
We pride ourselves on the quality of our work and maintain the highest standards in ensuring that inclusion becomes a reality in our lifetimes.

  What is Person Centred Planning?

Person Centered Planning is founded on the principles of Inclusion. It is a process that is alive and active and enables the person to be central and in control of the issues that affect their life.
Person Centered Planning utilises the knowledge, efforts and skills of those people who are most important to the person, including family, neighbours, friends and committed support workers.

It is a way of focusing on a person’s gifts, skills and unique character. Traditional assessments frequently concentrate on what somebody cannot do and the support that they need to
fit into appropriate service settings or services. Person Centered Planning enables meaningful participation with the support of others and raises the quality of all people’s lives, assisting in building inclusive communities.

Individual Budgets

Individual budgets and personalised funding means that a budget is allocated according to individual needs. The individual is then given the budget and they can choose whether they take this in cash or services – either way, the budget should be used to secure the appropriate type of support for the individual.
“It’s about people being able to choose where and with whom they live. It’s about people taking a leading role in defining the things they require to take part in society. It’s about these requirements being met and services and support being seen as a means to that end, not as an end in themselves.”
Independent Living discussion paper (P6)Disability Rights Commission.
In Well-being and Choice: Putting people in control: improving assessment, direct payments and individual budgets the government states, “we want to move to a system where adults are
able to take greater control of their lives. We want to encourage a debate about risk management and the right balance between protecting individuals and enabling them to manage their own risks. We want to provide better information and signposting to allow people to retain responsibility, and to put people at the centre of assessing their own needs and how those needs can best be met. “

Advocacy Information

Lifecare can provide a signposting service and information service in a way that is accessible to anyone; we are very sensitive to people’s communication styles and will ensure that we give information in an appropriate style for the individual, with the correct support for each person to use the information.
We will also be able to provide people with advocates to enable choice about which type of support service is right for each person. We will provide independent information about the various ways support can be managed.
We will support people using person centered planning tools and approaches to develop their own support plans which will guide how they will spend their individual budget. We can draw upon 17 years of experience in finding flexible, creative, community based solutions to people’s needs. From our sister organisation, Circles Network

Supported Decision Making

What is important is the quality of communication and support that people have. The focus shifts from the individual’s capacity to the supporter’s ability to communicate and work with a person. The quality of the relationship between an individual and the person providing assistance is hugely important. After all, it is in these relationships that people find support and protection. Lifecare’s values are based on the principles that everyone can communicate; that everyone has dreams and aspirations and everyone has talents and things to offer others and the wider community. We believe that individual budgets will only be successful if people are listened to and their dreams and aspirations taken seriously.
Lifecare team members are there to listen carefully to individuals, their families and friends.

01788 876671         info@circlesnetwork.org.uk             lifecarecharitabletrust.co.uk