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This module is concerned with the support of vulnerable people in the community and strategies to maintain their independence outside of institutional care. It focuses on the implementation of the personalisation policy and the emergent roles of brokerage and personal assistance. It addresses the range of support available in the community, financial arrangements and the contribution of partnership working across all service areas and sectors. It reviews principles of systematic intervention, choice, service user involvement and anti-oppressive practice in the wider social context.

Principles of systematic intervention for vulnerable people with a range of health, housing or social care issues to enable them to remain in their own homes and avoid long term institutional care. The policy of personalisation and its legal and organisation base. The difference between professional and lay interventions and the new roles of broker and personal assistant. Issues will be considered within the context of positive health and social care values that promote independence and empowerment. Issues to do with appropriate and inappropriate dependence.

i. Knowledge and Understanding
On successful completion of the module the students should be able to:
a) Apply the theoretical principles of personalisation policy and partnership working;
b) Understand the financial support and range of services available to people who use services and their carers including assistive technology and services arising as a result of community development initiatives;
c) Analyse the links and tensions between theories and methods for promoting anti-oppressive practice, interdependence, choice, autonomy, consent, confidentiality and other appropriate values;
d) Critically reflect on the potential for conflict and dilemmas in practice between users, carers, community and organisational interests in relation to appropriate and inappropriate dependence and maintaining vulnerable people in their own homes;
f) Understand the basic policy initiatives that promote independence for vulnerable adults and the new roles of broker and personal assistant emerging from personalisation.

ii. Skills
On successful completion of the module the students should be able to:
a) Integrate theory with practical examples
b) Reflect on practice.

Staff/student contact: 20% (workshops and group tutorials)
Student directed learning: 80% (practice based learning experiences, learning sets, student directed learning, assignment preparation)

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.