We saw structured booklets of support that were worked through with people in the service. We spoke to people about how they were involved with developing their support. One person said, 'The staff help me to identify what I need, then they let me decide what support I want.'We spoke to people about how the service worked with other agencies. One person said, 'The service helps us as much as they can. If they can't help us they will get us the help from somewhere else.' The service had professional relationships with a number of other agencies. Suitable arrangements had been made to share information with other agencies to protect the health, welfare and safety of people using the service.
We saw people using the service interacting with staff. People were confident to express themselves freely and openly. This gave us assurances that people would feel confident to tell staff if they had a problem. When we asked people if they were confident in the staff, they said yes.
Staff working for the service said they enjoyed their job and they felt supported. One member of staff said, 'We have regular team meetings, sometimes weekly. Because we are a small team it's easy to get us all together to agree things.'
The service had comprehensive records management policies including how to process, store, manage and dispose of records.