Positive Risk-Taking: How to Frame It in Tenders Without Raising Red Flags
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⚖️ Positive Risk-Taking: How to Frame It in Tenders Without Raising Red Flags
🔍 Why Positive Risk-Taking Matters
Positive risk-taking is a vital part of person-centred care, empowering people to maintain choice, independence, and control. Commissioners expect to see this balanced with safeguarding, risk management, and capacity considerations — not avoided through fear of liability. It’s about enabling, not restricting.
📋 What to Include in Your Response
- How risk assessments balance safety with choice and control
- Embedding Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Best Interests decisions
- Involving individuals, families, and professionals in decision-making
- Supporting positive outcomes while mitigating avoidable harm
- Governance processes for reviewing, learning, and adapting
Your method statement should show how positive risk-taking aligns with your safeguarding responsibilities and person-centred planning processes.
💡 Examples of Good Practice
For domiciliary care, this might include supporting someone to access their community independently after a risk assessment. For learning disability services, it could involve encouraging individuals to try new activities while managing known risks.
🛍️ Ready-to-Use Person-Centred Planning Method Statements
Strengthen your tenders with our Person-Centred Planning Method Statements Collection for domiciliary care and learning disability providers.
🔑 Final Thought
Positive risk-taking demonstrates respect for autonomy, dignity, and rights. Commissioners want evidence that you support individuals to live fulfilling lives — not avoid risk through unnecessary restrictions.
Written by Mike Harrison, Founder of Impact Guru Ltd — specialists in bid writing and strategy for social care providers.
Visit impact-guru.co.uk to browse downloadable strategies, method statements, or get in touch about tender support.