Birmingham City Council Assessment and Support Planning Courses

 

ASP workers need to obtain permission from their Delivery manager and authorisation from their Workforce manager BEFORE attending any course. Failure to follow this process could result in disciplinary action.

Scroll down the page and click on the course title to get the full course description. For any training queries please call 0121 303 0990.

 

Direct Payments Resources

Direct Payment Resources for Assessment and Support Planning Staff.

Below are resources that have been used throughout the delivery of Direct Payment Sessions to ASP managers, HPDT, Standard and ACAP teams. They have been made available to download to support Team Managers in their delivery of Direct Payments awareness sessions during team meetings.

You will also find Module 9 of the Local Government Association (LGA) Care Act e-learning which will compliment your work around direct payments. If you would like to access the other 11 Care Act modules, please click here 

To access up to date versions forms relating to the Direct Payment process, please visit https://www.yammer.com/birmingham.gov.uk

Direct Payments and Personal Budgets video on YouTube video click here

https://youtu.be/8H-RHMhqJJ0

SPD Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ)

This SAQ is designed to find out any relevant  learning requirements you may have with regards to gaining experience and knowledge of the SPW role.

Do note that the SAQ is just a guidance of the areas covered by an SPW and you may have already had training or experience in some of the areas.