SCIE Report 36: Enabling risk, ensuring safety: Self-directed support and personal budgets

Practice

'Risk decision making is often complicated by the fact that the person or group taking the decision is not always the person or group affected by the risk' (Neill, Allen, Woodhead et al, 2009)

Principles for person-centred practice

Some core principles which foster person-centred, positive risk taking while maintaining safety are:

The following practice points have been identified for local authorities and social care providers:

Finally, any positive approach to risk must include the basic principles of person-centred approaches:

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