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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Needs assessments and care and rehabilitation plans - Care and rehabilitation plan

25: Care and rehabilitation plan to identify personal needs of care recipients

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"A care and rehabilitation plan helps figure out what you need to stay safe and healthy."

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When you have a care and rehabilitation plan, it must include some important details about you. It must identify your social, cultural, and spiritual needs, as well as any medical or psychological treatment you require. It must also consider any medication you need to manage your condition.

Your plan must think about times when you might behave in a way that could endanger yourself or others. It should also look at your skills and aptitudes, and try to maintain and encourage them if possible. You might have special concerns or aversions, or special dietary needs, and these must be considered in your plan.

When identifying your needs, your plan must take into account any cultural assessment that was completed under section 23. Your plan must say how your needs can be met, and what kind of supervision you require to stay safe. It must make sure you get the right supervision to avoid any undue risk to your health or safety, or the health or safety of others.

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Part 3Needs assessments and care and rehabilitation plans
Care and rehabilitation plan

25Care and rehabilitation plan to identify personal needs of care recipients

  1. Every care and rehabilitation plan must identify the following matters:

  2. the social, cultural, and spiritual needs of the care recipient:
    1. any medical or psychological treatment that the care recipient requires:
      1. any requirements for medication needed to manage the care recipient's condition:
        1. the circumstances in which the care recipient is likely to behave in a manner that endangers the health or safety of the care recipient or of others:
          1. any aptitudes or skills of the care recipient that should, if practicable, be maintained and encouraged:
            1. any special concerns or aversions of the care recipient:
              1. any special dietary needs of the care recipient:
                1. any other special needs of the care recipient.

                  1. The identification, under subsection (1)(a), of the care recipient's needs must take into account any cultural assessment completed under section 23.

                  2. Every care and rehabilitation plan must indicate the extent to which, and the manner in which, the needs identified under subsection (1) can be met.

                  3. Every care and rehabilitation plan must deal with the kind of supervision the care recipient requires to avoid undue risk to the health or safety of the care recipient and of others.