Support plan

Making a support plan will help you work out what's important to you and how you can use your budget in the best way for you. Your support plan identifies how you want to spend the budget to meet your needs and how you want this support to be organised.

The support plan looks at a number of questions about your priorities, goals, lifestyle, how you intend to spend the care money and how you will manage your support.

You make a support plan after you have been given an indication of the amount of money available needed to meet your needs (indicative budget). This is part of the Choice and Control process. Once the support plan is completed, your care manager, social worker or assessment officer must see the plan and agree it with you.

What you need in your support plan

Your local authority needs your support plan to answer these questions:

1. What is important to you?
2. What do you want to change or achieve?
3. How will you arrange support?
4. How will you spend your money?
5. How will you manage your support?
6. How will you stay in control of your life?
   

What a support plan looks like

The In Control website has some video examples of support plans that may help you to create your own.