The Scottish Government

MINIMUM CORE DATA SET No. 3 SUPPORT PLANNING

Data Item

Definition Provided

3.1

Housing support services

YES

3.2

Start date(s)

Not Required

3.3

Frequency and level of service provision (including informal care)

Not Required

3.4

Overall objectives of the 'support plan'

YES

3.5

Agreed service provider(s)

Sourced from local resource directory (SP1 and SP2)

3.6

Direct Payments arrangement

Not Required

3.7

Unit cost of services

Not Required

3.8

Overall cost of services to be provided

Not Required

3.9

Actual charge

Not Required

3.10

Nominated worker (co-ordinator)

Not Required

3.11

Unmet need

Locally defined

3.12

Reason for unmet need

Locally defined

3.13

Review date(s)

Not Required

3.14

Frequency of reviews

Not Required

MINIMUM CORE DATA SET No. 3 SUPPORT PLANNING

Data Item Name:

HOUSING SUPPORT

Table Reference:

Table 3.1 (see Table 2.7a on page 38 for the Standard Code List)

Source(s):

Various / SCDS

Purpose:

Up to date case records of services required and/or received is a key component of support planning. Also required to monitor the development of more flexible approaches to support - a major theme of national social care policy.

Overall Definition: This data item needs to allow for multiple selections.

Housing support services includes any service which provides support, advice or counselling to an individual with particular needs with a view to enabling that individual to occupy, or to continue to occupy, as the person's sole or main residence, residential accommodation other than excepted accommodation. ( The Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, section (91(8)).

This refers to services which are being received at the point of assessment. Housing management, housing support, home care and meals services and personal care form a continuum. Housing support services should be based on an identified, planned programme of support for specific individuals and should be aimed at:

• developing an individual's capacity to live independently in the community, or sustaining their capacity to do so.
• expanding tenure choices - for example for an individual who might remain in or be admitted to institutional care, or become homeless or suffer tenancy breakdown, if support were not provided. (Scottish Executive)

MINIMUM CORE DATA SET No. 3 SUPPORT PLANNING

Data Item Name:

OVERALL OBJECTIVES OF THE 'SUPPORT PLAN'

Table Reference:

Table 3.4

Source(s):

Social Care Data Standards Project

Purpose:

Essential for performance monitoring locally and nationally.

Overall Definition:

A support plan should be a written statement specifying the objectives for the future agreed between staff and users, and outlining the means by which those objectives are to be met.

Included in the code list are some objectives (06, 07 and 08) which, considered in isolation, do not constitute housing support objectives. However, they are important within a holistic assessment approach.

Code

Value

Definition

01

Successful move

A positive departure from supported housing.

02

Maintain tenancy

Person maintains a tenancy where it was at risk on referral.

03

Avoidance of reconviction

Person is not convicted of committing any criminal offence.

04

Prevention of admission to hospital

Persons with a history of drug/alcohol problems, mental health problems, or at risk of deterioration in health because of other factors are not required to be admitted to NHS treatment or long stay care.

05

Prevention of admission to care homes or more intensive housing support.

Person is maintained in own home.

06

Training and education

Person attends/completes training for emploment, adult education or life-long learning programme.

07

Employment

Person secures employment.

08

Linkage to other services

Person engages successfuly with other services.

09

Other (specify)