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Service Examples
PSS can offer a personalised care plan to people of all ages, dependant on the wishes and needs of the individual. People that benefit from PSS service include:
- people with a learning disability
- those living with mental health
- people with dementia
- anyone who is old and vulnerable
- adults with physical disability and/or sensory impairment
- people who have palliative care needs
- people seeking asylum or have refugee status
- anyone who wants to improve their health and wellbeing
- people with caring responsibilities for relatives
- children with disabilities
- siblings of disabled children
- young people with caring responsibilities
- children and grandparents affected by parental drug and alcohol use
- young asylum seekers and refugees
- families of offenders
- vulnerable young people in transition
- looked after children
- women with post natal depression
PSS services help people to gain confidence and self-esteem, develop specific skills, extend informal and formal networks and generally improve lifestyles. Our services are delivered at neighbourhood level but using innovative models and practice that have been taken up around the world. Ground-breaking PSS projects include Age Concern, community legal services and marriage guidance. Some of examples of our current services are:
- care at home
- community outreach and support
- adult placement / shared lives services
- resource or day centre activities
- counselling
- respite services
- special grants
- social work person centered planning
- service brokerage
- supported housing
- short-stay services for individuals and couples
- assistive technology and environmental design
- community development
- training
