The Skills around the person (SATP) approach starts from an underlying assumption that the person-centred model is vital at meeting people’s social care needs but recognises that more is needed to improve people’s wellbeing.
Focusing on needs is only part of the picture, recognising and harnessing both individual and community resources and putting people’s resources – talents, skills and goals-at the centre of social care support, the SATP approach will have wider, positive repercussions.
Partner organisation Skills for Care are supporting this approach and have worked with two dozen projects over the past 18 months. They have published an independent evaluation report with a focus on adult social care and end of life care, along with case studies on their website.
The report also draws on evidence which shows the potential for using the model with staff recruitment processes so that care staff are matched with the people they support.
