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An effective plan for inclusion is almost certain to involve
several stages. For example, the right choice of inclusive
opportunities will depend of the interests, wishes, and
skills of the individual, so these need to be established
at the outset. Then it will be necessary to find suitable
opportunities in the community and to assess the potential
of the ones that appear best. Later, the focus will be
on the first visit. And, as the last stage - so often
overlooked - it's important to think about how the inclusion
activity can be sustained in a safe and positive way.
The SIP lets you build a plan that covers each of these
stages, using the 100+ activities held on the SIP as templates
which you adapt to the person (yourself, or the person
you are supporting) and the community. With plans recorded
on the SIP, many more featrues become possible. |
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How and where the SIP can
be used
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The SIP has
been designed mainly to support the inclusion of people
with learning disabilities and people with mental health
issues - but it would also be very useful in any context
concerned with social inclusion. |
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The ideal situation
to use the SIP is inside a service, such as a day centre.
In this kind of situation, people can share the same copy
(installed on one PC), and this would allow everyone to
share their learning as they work to promote inclusion.
However, there's nothing to stop you using the SIP in
other situations, or as a personal resource. |
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We very much
hope that the SIP will be used in ways that are empowering
to people who use services. The vision that we have is
of people - people who want to achieve inclusion, and
people with a commitment to help them - having a conversation
together, with the SIP as a resource by their side. |
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Features and facilities |
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Browse
and build
Plans are created on the
planner screen, where all 100+ inclusion activities can
be browsed. Ideas for turning these into stages of a plan
for inclusion can be jotted on to the Plan Pad, on the
same screen, and easily added to the plan
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Share
the knowledge - and don't reinvent the wheel!
Learning from doing - whether
about local resources, useful contacts, or lessons from
practice - can be shared between people using the same
installed copy of the SIP using the Local Notes facility. |
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Develop
and implement several plans in parallel
Achieving inclusion isn't
a one-off exercise. So the SIP allows several plans to
be recorded for one person, each at different stages.
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Monitor
and chase progress
Quick reporting facilities
allow you to check progress on all the plans where you're
involved, and those where you've missed target dates.
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Monitor
the overall pattern of action to promote inclusion
The SIP lets you see the
big picture at the click of a button. Are some inclusion
activities never being used? Maybe people need training
to be more comfortable using them. Or are there some kinds
of activity that don't seem to get results? Perhaps there's
a 'blockage' in the community that needs a strategy of
its own. |
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Let
everyone have access who wants it.
The SIP comes with three levels
of access to the records it holds. Workers supporting
people to achieve inclusion can have a SIP account that
lets them see only those plans where they are involved.
Accounts can also be created which only allow access to
plans in the name of the account-holder - so it's entirely
possible (and of course entirely right!) to let people
aiming for inclusion to have their own access to the SIP. |
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