What's important to me?

Tell us what makes you - things that are important to you and make your life fun and rewarding. For example, your favourite places to visit, favourite football teams, favourite colour or special people in your life.

How to support me

Tell us how it is best to support you. Think about things that make life easier for you, how to keep you safe and how to help you to learn and communicate. If you have to take medicine on a regular basis or use any particular equipment please tell us all about it; when and how you take medicine and how much, how to use any equipment you need, etc.

Things that are working well for me

Think about you / your child’s life at the moment. Tell us what's going well and why. Consider the following areas:

• At school
• At home 
• In my leisure time
• With my health
• With my care

Things that aren't working so well for me

Think about your life at the moment. Tell us what's not working well and why. How could things be improved? Consider the following areas:

• At school
• At home 
• In my leisure time
• With my health
• With my care

The future

It's important to make plans for the future. To do this you need to think about the things you'd like to be able to do. Some of these things will be small steps towards things that you may succeed in doing quite soon, some will be longer term plans, but both are important. Your plans might change as you get older, but that's ok. Please share your thoughts about the future, what you'd like to be able to do and what sort of life you'd like to have in the future.

What's important to us?

Tell us what's important to your family - things that are important to make life fun and rewarding. For example, favourite places to visit, activities you like to do as a family, any particular interests that you, your partner or other children have. These may be things that you don't do with your child who has a disability or additional need, but are important to you and other members of your family, or may be things that you all do together.

This section is also an opportunity to talk about what is important to you when you are working with people who support your child.

How to support us

Tell us how it's best to support you or your family. Think about things that make life easier for you or your family, how to help you or your family in difficult times, what helps you or your family to better support each other. You may wish to consider things like:

• Do you prefer people involved with your child to speak to you in a particular manner?
• Do you prefer to have appointment dates set for certain days or times?
• Are there certain topics that should not be discussed in front of some members of the family?

Things that are working well for me

Think about your or your family’s life at the moment. Tell us what's going well and why. You may want to consider things such as:

• How your day runs - are there areas that work really well such as handovers at school or transport arrangements?
• If your child attends respite care, why is this working and what benefit are you getting from this?
• Is there a service you're accessing that's had a particularly positive impact on your family life?

Things that aren't working so well for me

Think about your and your family’s life at the moment. Tell us what's not working well and why? How could things be improved?

You may want to consider things such as specific difficulties - perhaps an unsuitable transport arrangement, or a group that's available but not easily accessed.

You may also like to consider more complex issues, such as:

• A member of the family that may need further support in coming to terms with your family’s circumstances or your child’s diagnosis
• Juggling a full time job / family and your child’s needs
• Personal relationships and how your child’s care needs are impacting on these

You may also want to include here if there's been an impact on you or your family’s health and wellbeing, and your ability to work or do leisure activities.

The future

It's important to make plans for the future. To do this you need to think about the things that you or your family would like to be able to do. Some of these things will be small steps towards things that you may succeed in doing quite soon, some will be longer term plans, but both are important. Your plans might change as you or your child gets older, but that's ok. Please share your thoughts about the future, what you'd like to be able to do and what sort of a life you or your family would like to have in the next section.