From the Gov website ## What are personal outcomes?
‘Personal outcomes describe what a person wants to achieve. These are realistic goals that the person receiving care and support, and their care worker or carer can work towards. They are usually based around supporting the individual’s wellbeing.
Outcomes will vary from person to person because they’re about what matters to that individual.’
What worries me is that these personal outcomes can then influence how SDS is used.
Our last set of outcomes stated that my daughter was to live as independent and fulfilled life as possible. That gave us broad use of SDS. I suspect that she is trying to narrow them down.
My daughter can’t speak and so relies on others to do this for her; that is her guardians .
We have full guardianship and no guardian was consulted, which meant really that my daughter has had no voice in this.
It also seems inappropriate that the social worker can approach someone whom my daughter was employing and ask her about my daughter without guardian permission and then use that person’s information to write a POP . So basically my daughter’s life outcomes have been written by a SW who only met her for 5 mins, an employee and no input from her or her guardian.
It was also the sneaky way it was done. When she came to visit myself and my daughter she didn’t say she was writing a POP. She just said she had come to introduce herself. We had a chat and then she used the information from the conversation to write it ? I haven’t been given a copy even though requested?