Positive risk taking
Positive risk taking, and strengths-based support
Positive risk taking means the rights of individuals to make their own decisions, and the role of people who support them to make sure they can make these decisions safely. Flintshire County Council have made a handy guide to positive risk taking in practice.
Cumbria Learning Disability Services also developed an easy read policy about positive risk taking, which you can check out here.
Positive risk taking is an important area when it comes to sex and relationships. Please click here for more information.
Strengths-based support is linked to positive risk taking, because it is about focusing on the positives – not focusing on what people can’t do, but what they can do.
Denbighshire County Council have created a resource wheel to support staff to have conversations and support plan with people in ways that focus on their strengths. This has really helped to change the ways that people think, and take more positive risks.
For example, since they have been using the resource wheel, more social work staff have been supporting people with learning disabilities to access more ‘mainstream’ employability support than they used to.
Pilot Project
Tech Hardware
The aim of this pilot / project will be to take technology to people, to highlight what is available and link the technology to people’s goals and outcomes. This will aim to to show how technology can be used for people to become more independent and support risk enablement at home and in the community.