Desired Outcomes

1. Desired Outcomes Provide you with an insight into: how the Better Futures approach is being incorporated into the work of Aspire. What the impact has been so far. Sharing thoughts for the further development of the BF approach.

2. Why ‘Better Futures’? Suggests positivity/instils hope/ explicit expectation there should (generally) be growth in individuals’ confidence & abilities; Inclines person’s perspective towards looking forward to new possibilities - rather than preoccupation with the past; Helps tilt support worker positively in same direction; Also applicable in maintaining confidence & abilities at current levels: a sense that person worse-off in absence of the service.

3. Impact of Integrating Better Futures into existing Systems Aspire’s ‘Support & Development Agreement’ reviewed: Increased emphasis on empowering Individuals take more responsibility for self-directing their lives Shows more clearly Individual’s patterns of needs/aspirations Paperwork reduced by over 40%

4. Better Futures - Outcomes Jan-July 2014 4

5. Better Futures‘Distance Travelled’Jan – July 2014 5

6. Better Futures: Individuals’ Questionnaire Responses from 12 Supported Individuals

7. Compared to other approaches you have experienced, how useful, or otherwise, have you found the Better Futures approach?

8. Does the Better Futures approach give you a better, or a worse, sense of personal control over your own life at present?

9. Does the Better Futures approach give you a better, or a worse, sense of personal control over where your life could go in the future?

10. Would you recommend the Better Futures approach to other people to use?

11. Why would you recommend Better Futures?

12. Better Futures: Staff Questionnaire Responses from 16 Staff who collectively have carried out approximately 650 Baseline Assessments and 697 reviews

13. How useful did staff find the BF approach?

14. Has using the BF approach made any changes in your day-to-day work practice?

15. Comments about changes to practice

16. Advantages of using Better Futures Approach

17. Effect Better Futures has had on Job Satisfaction

18. Why would you recommend Better Futures?

19. Concluding Observations The BF approach is highly favoured by Individuals & staff. For both sets of people - it brings a greater: Joint alignment/clarity of purpose (more effective partnerships based on mutual understanding) Hope, optimism and improved morale Focus Efficiency of effort and administration (over 40% reduction in paperwork) For Individuals – it brings greater: Control over their own lives and how they want it to unfold (desired Outcomes, trajectory in life) For Staff – it brings greater: Job satisfaction - with a measurable sense of forward direction

20. For Providers/Managers – it brings greater clarity re patterns occurring within Services-delivery at different levels and across Services that can: Indicate changes that may be needed internally in service-delivery Indicate external factors that may be influencing positively or negatively on the service provided. It may suggest wider environmental/systems reviews – that derives from person-centred data.

21. Thoughts for the Future Continue development & increased use of the BF approach Undertake more counter-factual comparisons Undertake more longitudinal studies: continue isolating what works best in the BF approach and build on this Comparing it against controls/other approaches Reduce paperwork further: maximise Better Futures use on Tablets/iPad. BF has been largely focused on Individuals – increasingly move to interpreting aggregated data. Integration with ‘Talking Points’/other outcomes-based approaches? *

22. Desired Outcomes Provide you with an insight into: how the Better Futures approach is being incorporated into the work of Aspire. What the impact has been so far. Sharing thoughts for the further development of the BF approach. Helping you decide on whether it’s for you!

23. Disadvantages of using Better Futures Approach

24. Distance Travelled By Individuals

25. What’s your view on the assessment scoring being shown in the form of an Outcomes Wheel Graph, the Bar Chart or in number form?

26. Comments on own Professional Development

27. What Role does the Better Futures Outcomes Approach have in your life?

28. How Easy, or Difficult, was the Assessment and Scoring to Understand?

29. How easy, or difficult, was the assessment and scoring to understand?

30. Has it made any changes in your own development as a Social Care Professional?

31. Role BF has played in Developmental Support