Dimensions 2020
Strategy
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Product number: 80281512161
This booklet tells you what Dimensions is doing
till 2020.
Personalisation
Dimensions wants a future where everyone is
included and everyone has the chance to live the
life they choose.
Personalisation is about having choice and
control in your life.
Dimensions wants to support people in the best
way possible and the way that is right for them.
Dimensions wants you to have the best support.
Dimensions wants you to be safe.
It wants the people it supports to be involvedn
with their local communities.
Dimensions wants to make sure you get the
things you need and support you to get the most
out of life.
Dimensions is going to do research into how to
support people in the best possible way. Research
means to study something carefully to find
information about it.
Dimensions wants to work out new ways of
supporting people based on research. Research
means to study something carefully to find
information about it.
Dimensions wants to support people in the best
way so that others can follow its example.
This new way of supporting people will focus on
the changes that it makes to people’s lives.
Example
People
John gets upset and then he finds it hard to
focus on anything.
Dimensions wants everyone who works for
Dimensions to feel included and wants staff to
respect each other and all the ways they are
different.
Experts in Dimensions have studied how we
support people very carefully. For example, they
have found out how to support people when
they are upset and need support to focus.
Dimensions wants to have staff who love their
work and are great at their job. Dimensions
wants to help staff to be the best they can be.
Staff in Sheffield get information from the
experts to find the best way to help John focus
when he gets upset.
Dimensions wants staff to feel responsible for
the things they do.
John is now much happier because he gets the
support he needs.
Dimensions wants it to be clear who is
responsible for the jobs that need to be done.
Example
Getting more involved
Linda came to work for Dimensions in 2009.
Dimensions wants to get even better at working
with other organisations.
She has had lots of training and meetings with
her manager.
Dimensions wants to make things better for all
the organisations that support people, so that
everyone’s support gets better.
She feels like she is an important part of her
staff team. She feels like she is an important
part of her staff team.
It wants to support families to speak up and be
heard.
She knows that she is doing something she
loves and she is doing it really well.
It wants to speak up to make sure your voice
and the voice of the people it supports is heard
loud and clear.
Example
Getting bigger and better
Some of the people we support decide that
they want the government to do something
differently.
Dimensions wants to help people to have a
good home.
Dimensions will work with this group.
Dimensions wants to support all the staff who
work in the main offices to do the best job they
can do.
They will make sure that their message gets
heard.
Dimensions wants to keep finding out about
new ways of supporting people and thinking
about the different people it can support in
future.
This will help to let everyone know that the
voice of people with learning disabilities and
autism needs to be heard.
Dimensions wants to support more people with
complex needs. These are people who need
more support because of their health or how
they are with other people or how they look
after themselves.
Example
Organisation
Dimensions wants to support more people like
Darren.
Dimensions wants to do even better at learning
from its mistakes and the things it does well.
Darren has autism and lives in a house that is
designed especially for him.
Dimensions wants to put all the skills people
have and all the things that it owns to the best
use possible.
Darren needs a lot of support to live the life he
chooses.
Dimensions wants to give staff and the people
they support more control.
Dimensions has a lot of experience supporting
people like Darren so it knows it is the best
organisation to help Darren get the most out of
life.
Dimensions wants more people to make
decisions about the things that happen in their
area.
Example
Cynthia lives in Oxford and needs to make some
big decisions about her life as her support is
changing.
Cynthia’s staff would normally have to wait until
they had spoken to the staff in the offices at
Dimensions in Theale before they could make big
changes to her support.
Now the boss of Dimensions in Oxford can make
those decisions which speeds things up so that
Cynthia can get the support she needs faster.
If you would like any more information about any
of the things that this booklet talks about or if
you have any questions ask a member of staff.
This is a guide to the Dimensions 2020 Strategy for people we support.
Dimensions Easy Information
December 2016