Articles

Personalisation in Practice: How to Embed Choice and Control

Blog 2 of 7 in our Person-Centred Approaches: Core Principles & Values mini-series. This article explains how providers embed personalisation, choice and control into daily delivery, supervision and governance, with...

What Person-Centred Care Really Means (And Why It Matters in Tenders)

Blog 1 of 7 in the Person-Centred Approaches: Core Principles & Values mini-series. This article explains what person-centred support really means in practice, with operational examples, governance mechanisms and inspection-ready...

Co-Produced Safeguarding: Making Safeguarding Personal While Managing Risk Safely

Making Safeguarding Personal means doing safeguarding with people, not to them. This cornerstone guide shows how to co-produce safeguarding plans and meetings, balance protection with positive risk-taking, and evidence involvement,...

Positive Risk-Taking in Safeguarding: Supporting Choice, Rights and Safety Under MSP

Risk is not automatically a safeguarding failure. This cornerstone guide explains how services move from risk aversion to risk enablement, using Making Safeguarding Personal and positive risk-taking. It includes practical...

Safeguarding as Partnership: Making Safeguarding Personal and Positive Risk-Taking in Practice

Safeguarding is strongest when it is done with people, not to them. This cornerstone guide shows how to evidence partnership-based safeguarding through Making Safeguarding Personal and positive risk-taking, including co-produced...

Making Safeguarding Personal in Practice: Outcomes, Voice and Positive Risk-Taking

Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) starts with what the person wants to change, not what the process demands. This cornerstone guide explains how to evidence outcome-led safeguarding, balance autonomy with protection,...

Making Safeguarding Personal: Balancing Choice, Consent and Positive Risk-Taking in Adult Social Care

Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) is how providers prove safeguarding is done with people, not to them. This cornerstone guide explains how to involve individuals in decisions, use positive risk-taking safely,...

Safeguarding Tender Answers That Score: How to Make Safeguarding Personal and Evidence Positive Risk-Taking

Most safeguarding tender answers list policies and legislation but fail to show what safeguarding looks like day to day. This cornerstone guide explains how to evidence Making Safeguarding Personal and...

Making Safeguarding Personal in Tender Writing: How to Evidence Empowerment and Positive Risk-Taking

Commissioners don’t just want safeguarding policies — they want proof that people are heard, respected and kept safe without losing control. This cornerstone guide shows how to write tender responses...