ABSTRACT
Traditionally, processes involving assessment are service-orientated, conducted
by services and professionals and focus on aims and goals that are considered
to be important to them. When this is the case, the control and power in these
processes is held by services, not by the individual being supported. Person-
centred approaches aim to shift the balance of this power by putting the individual
at the centre of this process and enabling them, if wished, to establish their own
personalised support and use of a range of settings and community networks.
